BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

In the past year – from August 2015 to July 2016 -- the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon increased approximately 8,000 square kilometers; this means a 29 per cent increase in comparison to the ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Brazil's environment minister Edson Duarte said in a statement that illegal logging was the main factor behind the increase in deforestation in the Amazon The states of Pará and Mato Grosso were ...

According to satellite imagery data released Friday, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remained high despite a slight decline. Brazil's DETER satellite monitoring system of the National ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Some of that deforestation will likely happen in the Cerrado, the savanna biome next to the Amazon that serves as Brazil’s second-largest source of carbon storage. The Cerrado is governed by ...