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

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.

In a landmark move for biodiversity conservation and recognition of the essential role of Indigenous territories in ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...

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 ...

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 ...