As deforestation and climate change threaten to transform the Amazon, there is growing concern that the ecosystem may be ...

Biden becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest President Biden, with granddaughter Natalie Biden, boards Air Force One in Lima, Peru, on the way to Manaus, Brazil.

According to the study, alerts indicating forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 44% from 2023 to 2024—a 163% increase compared to 2022. Last year alone, 25,023 square kilometers (km² ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% in the 12 months through July from a year earlier, bringing deforestation to its lowest level in nine years, official data released last week said.

Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon rainforest in recent ...

In Brazil, home to around 60% of the Amazon, organized crime like logging and drug trafficking thrived under the far-right presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, with severe environmental consequences.

Agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources inspect logs seized from the Amazon rainforest during an operation to combat deforestation in Nova California ...

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to ease travel for attendees.

Danielle I. Rappaport, Anshuman Swain, William F. Fagan, Ralph Dubayah, Douglas C. Morton, Animal soundscapes reveal key markers of Amazon forest degradation from fire and logging, Proceedings of the ...