Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in October and the number of blazes is up 25% in the first 10 months of 2020, compared to a year ago, data from government space research agency Inpe ...

The data similarly showed a drop in deforestation in the Amazon's neighboring Cerrado savanna of roughly 26% to 8,174 sq km, the lowest since 2020. (Reporting by Lisandra Parguassu and Jake Spring ...

Between 2001 and 2020, the Amazon lost over 54.2mn hectares, or almost 9% of its forests, an area the size of France.

In 2020, balsa wood from Amazon's Ecuadorian forests triumphed over previous toppers like bananas and shrimp in the production graph, so much so that this demand spurred a whole new “black ...

Under Bolsonaro, deforestation in the Amazon was at a 15-year high with over 5,000 square miles destroyed from August 2020 to July 2021.

The Amazon could be racing closer to a calamitous tipping point that would transform the lush rainforest into a drier savanna within a century, researchers warn. This massive shift could be ...

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

Scientists have known for some time now that tropical birds are falling in number. In general, the cause has been attributed to forest degradation and fragmentation. But a 2020 study has shown ...

Raiumundo Freire, who harvests a mixture of forest products including açaí and cacau, said he’s witnessed the process himself. He first moved to the Triunfo do Xingu territory in 1986, when it ...