The Brazilian Amazon witnessed a 7% annual drop in the amount of deforested land in 2024, even as the area affected by degradation increased multiple times over, according to a report published Friday ...

Illegal deforestation is wiping out a significant portion of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. According to a report by Mongabay, satellite images have recently revealed that deforestation around ...

According to the Brazilian Federal Police, Bruno Heller is one of Amazon's largest deforesters and relied on legal and ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and basins Outer limits of the pan-Amazon region* Quito Lima La Paz ...

Deforestation dramatically worsened under Lula's far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, whose administration saw Amazon deforestation shoot up 75 percent compared to the average of the previous decade.

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

Those fires then contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some blazes were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its ...

Industrial farming in Brazil and off-road racing in Chile continue to threaten geoglyphs that are so big, they can only be ...

One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon is industrial farming. Setting fire to the forest is one of the main ways humans get rid of trees. Burning trees also makes the forest ...

Malaysia says EU deforestation law presents challenges ... by the Brazilian agribusiness firm with native species from the Amazon rainforest, it said on Monday. Brazil startup partners with ...