ALTAMIRA, Brazil - If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold.

Brazil’s innovative Amazon protection tools will be showcased at COP30, but surging wildfires pose a threat to their success ...

Deforestation in Colombia spiked by 43% in 2024, primarily affecting the Amazon region. This rise was attributed to forest fires exacerbated by climate change-induced droughts, according to ...

Deforestation in Colombia surged last year, according to data from the country’s environment ministry said on Thursday, as ...

Forests rely on animals to spread seeds and store carbon. Their decline threatens regeneration and climate goals.

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the ...

Essential' to illegal gold mining, toxic mercury is being trafficked across Latin America, 'fuelling violence' and ...

Recent moves in Ecuador have environmental interests concerned that the South American nation is unwinding some of the basis ...

Lula approved the controversial bill easing environmental licensing rules, but struck down or altered 63 articles.

The Amazon rainforest, often called the "lungs of the world", is facing a catastrophe of unimaginable scale - and those ...