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 ...

The Forest Stewardship Council has suspended its certification of a controversial logging company in the Peruvian Amazon accused of encroaching on the traditional territory of the Mashco Piro, an ...

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

In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and international pressure, the federal government decided to implement forest ...

Safeguarding tropical forest biodiversity requires solutions for monitoring ecosystem structure over time. In the Amazon, logging and fire reduce forest carbon stocks and alter habitat, but the ...

Biden to become the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest The Biden administration announced plans last year for a $500 million contribution to the Amazon Fund, the most ...

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 ...