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

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

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.

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 ...

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

The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...