Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

At last year's COP30, Brazil promised to draft a global roadmap to end deforestation, which is set for release by September ...

By Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO, May 9 (Reuters) - When Xing Yanling posted on WeChat about her visit to the Brazilian Amazon in April, she described to her friends in China the unforgettable sensation ...

Drug traffickers, illegal miners and criminal syndicates are rapidly expanding across the Amazon, pushing the rainforest closer to ecological collapse.

Preliminary data based on DETER, Brazils official satellite-based system that provides real-time alerts, show that both ...

Over the years, an increasing number of dams have been taken out. Between 1912 and 2025, some 2,350 dams have been removed, ...

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest sees reduced deforestation rates, yet faces significant threats from degradation, climate change, ...

The Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit was designed partly with ecosystems like the Amazon in mind. Keep warming under that mark – the thinking went – and the forest had enough stability to weather ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...