By Robert Muggah and Ilona Szabo Brazilis facing an alarming surge in forest fires. Last year, the country registered 237,000 ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

You don’t need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon’s most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire. As you ...

Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

Since world leaders pledged to halt global deforestation at the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow an area of ...

Brazil anticipates high-risk wildfires in the Amazon and Pantanal in 2025 after a record drought. The government is expanding ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion metric tons of CO2 annually—about a fifth of all human emissions—but their ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tons of CO2 annually -- about a fifth of all human emissions -- but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and human ...