This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," due to its vast capacity to ...

However, INPE’s DETER alert system also recorded a sharp rise in forest degradation. Deforestation in 2024 versus 2023 in the Brazilian Amazon according to Imazon’s SAD system. Forest ...

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that ...

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point ... leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva contrasted with deforestation that hit a 15-year high under Lula's predecessor, far ...

A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

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 ...

As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

found that accountability for illegal deforestation in the Amazon has increased. However, only 5 percent of the cases led to compensation. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the fines ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

However, shifts in rainfall, temperature and human activities, including deforestation and mining ... to understand microbes ...