Ecuador’s parliament has passed a law allowing private companies to help manage protected areas, prompting backlash from ...

This may not be the deepest film about the deforestation crisis, but it works as an effective call to action.

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

BRAZILIAN soy farmers are pushing deeper into the Amazon rainforest, threatening a landmark deal meant to slow deforestation.

Having returned to the helm of the environment ministry in 2023, on July 2nd she was summoned before a committee in the lower ...

An investigation by environmental nonprofit Earthsight said the Tapestry-owned brand is at risk of sourcing leather linked to ...

Amazon deforestation has steeply declined since the end of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's rule in 2022. Under that government, forest loss reached a 15-year high.

More information: Eduardo A. Haddad et al, Economic drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, Nature Sustainability (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01387-7. Provided by FAPESP.

Preserving Brazil's Amazon rainforest is crucial for protecting the region's biodiversity. New study finds Amazon restoration efforts reduced deforestation by over 80%: 'We highlight the ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached 8,174 square kilometers (3,156 square miles).

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the ...

Amazon deforestation has steeply declined since the end of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s rule in 2022. Under that government, forest loss reached a 15-year high.