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In 2023, hydro-electricity accounted for nearly half of Brazil's installed energy capacity, and more than 60% of its total ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

For every kilometer of first-cut road, 49.1 kilometers of secondary roads formed in the Brazilian Amazon, 9.8 kilometers in ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

Brazil's Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (Deter), of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), reported Thursday that deforestation in the Amazon in the first semester of 2023 had ...

Far from international forums and economical centers, locals in one of the Amazon deforestation hotspots seek alternatives to agribusiness and gold mines. Mongabay went to Pará state’s ...

Civil society groups and academics urged governments Thursday to take actual steps toward fulfilling a stalled pledge to end deforestation before this ...

Since world leaders pledged to halt and reverse global deforestation at the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow an ...

Nobre: This is a synergistic combination of droughts induced by global warming, combined with deforestation in the Southern Amazon—mostly for pastures for cattle ranches. And when those forests go, ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin ...