Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway ...

Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil Biden spoke after becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that ...

Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to ...

A massive swath of protected rainforest in Brazil has ... but with its placement through the Amazon – which plays a vital role in the planet’s biodiversity by absorbing carbon – many have spoken out ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over ... In response to the numbers, Salles vowed to roll out a series of measures to counter the rising deforestation ...

A huge four-lane highway is being built in the Amazon rainforest, destroying protected areas. The new road is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém, which will ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

In the UK we get a lot of rain. But this habitat gets so much rain that they named it a rainforest. This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very ...