Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for ...

primarily because of land clearing for farming, while Ghana had the biggest relative increase in rainforest destruction when compared to 2021, the report found. Bolivia saw a record-high level of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires ... some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size ...

When most of us think about clearing away the Amazon rainforest, we have visions of chainsaws and scorched earth. In recent years, vast swathes of the rainforest have been razed for cattle ...

A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world’s three largest remaining tropical rainforests. The study, published in the journal Nature last month, found ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over ... Conference of the Parties (COP30), has already begun clearing the forests in preparation for hosting more than ...

Unlike wildfires in Europe or the United States, fires do not occur naturally in the humid, tropical Amazon rainforest. Instead, farmers cut down the forests and set trees on fire to clear land ...

His predecessor Jair Bolsonaro had advocated clearing rainforest land for mining, ranching and other uses. The success at reining in deforestation will give Amazon countries more leverage to push ...

Officials in Belém, Brazil, are clearing part of the Amazon rainforest to build a 13-kilometer, four-lane highway ahead of ...