Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts ...

Forests in the Brazilian Amazon damaged by fire remain about 2.6°C (4.7°F) hotter than neighboring intact or selectively ...

More and more loggers from urban areas are flocking to Ecuador to chop down trees and procure balsa wood for constructing windmills.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on Wednesday. Loss of tropical pristine forests alone ...

Brazil Thousands of Amazon indigenous are leaving the forest to experience a new life in cities Nearly half of the 6,200 Indigenous people in the Javari Valley now live in urban centers ...

Gold prices are soaring. Cue the gold rush, and with it, more challenges for Brazil and efforts to protect the world's largest tropical forest, write Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis.

Just, you know, enjoying the sound, the calm feeling that the forest brings. And since then he’s devoted his life to studying and protecting the Amazon.

Recovering tropical forests offset just one quarter of carbon emissions from new tropical deforestation and forest degradation Study reveals deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human ...

Credit: AGU Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2025AV001670 The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested.

JAKARTA — Tropical forest loss remained consistently high in 2021 with no sign of slowing down, despite commitments by companies and governments to curb deforestation, according to new data from ...

Introduction Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest.