“Historically, deforestation was the main driver of land use change in the Amazon ... there is already an edge effect. And both deforestation and what are called “forest disturbances ...

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing ... a city on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest, for the COP30 ...

The president of Brazil has been pursuing his big plans for the Amazon rainforest, even as parts ... Already, climate change, decades of logging, and land-clearing by intentionally set wildfires ...

According to a new study, 38 per cent of what's left of the Amazon has been degraded ... where the forest is removed altogether and a new land use, such as agriculture, is established in its ...

The Amazon is so vast that it makes its own rain. Wet air from the Atlantic moves over land ... forest to be there in order to happen,” Boulton said. “If deforestation happens on the edge ...

The residents of Maracaçumé, an impoverished town on the edge of the Amazon rainforest ... that has set aside land for a restoration project. Scientists say the entire rainforest ecosystem ...

(Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based ... deer approaches the forest edge. It’s among the few mammals species not expected to be negatively ...

Much of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is safeguarded behind a green shield of publicly protected land. In recent years, companies have launched preservation projects in search of a lucrative ...