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

Are you ready to learn about one of the most extraordinary places on the planet - the Amazon Rainforest - and the incredible ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about ...

Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

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Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

in a region with the ignominious title "Arc of deforestation" for having the highest rate of Amazon forest destruction. Farmers clearing land for soybeans and other crops are chiefly blamed for the ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can provide a fresh ...