Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same period a year prior, according ...

On Thursday, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announced that between August 2023 and July 2024, 6,288 square ...

In referendum, Ecuador voters reject oil drilling project in protected part of Amazon Ecuadorians voted against drilling for oil in a protected area of the Amazon, an important decision that will ...

Forest loss in Brazil's Amazon has dropped by 30.6 per cent compared to the previous year, officials say, the lowest level of ...

Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest ...

Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 percent of South America -- has lost about 20 percent of its area to deforestation, due to the spread of agriculture and ...

A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...

In Brazil’s Amazon ... to when the area became home to settlements of runaway African slaves: “No one hears my scream / They don’t know my oppression, hiding here in the forest, hungry ...

However, the origin of aerosol particles in pristine air over the Amazon rainforest during the wet season is poorly understood. A new study reveals that rainfall regularly induces bursts of newly ...

according to government data released on Wednesday -- the smallest area destroyed in the world's largest rainforest in nine years. Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were ...