This year’s U.N. climate conference, on the edge of the rainforest, is fueling criticism of the host nation and the entire ...

July 15 (UPI) --The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators -- continues to face serious threats in 2025. New data show that pressure on the ecosystem has ...

The Brazilian Parliament has approved legislation that conservationists denounce as potentially setting back protection of the Amazon by 40 years. The initiative has sparked international backlash.

A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30. After plunging in 2023 and 2024, deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% in ...

Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...

Amazon dieback”, as this grim scenario is known, is just one example of what climate scientists refer to as a tipping point: a threshold beyond which self-sustaining processes irreversibly push a part ...

Image An Indigenous Korubo boy in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Paulo Múmia/Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas [National ...

By Liz Kimbrough When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch.

American hamburgers are increasingly financing the destruction of the Amazon rainforest In a crackdown on the illegal cattle ranching that causes the tree felling, the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, ...

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas monitoring platform said Wednesday, boosting the government as it prepares to host ...

An international law enforcement operation has disrupted criminal networks working in the Amazon rainforest. The multicountry initiative, Operation Green Shield, was led by the United Arab Emirates ...

The "Guardians of the Forest" have taken up arms against the "invaders." Know it or not, Laercio Guajajara is fighting for you. The 35-year-old indigenous Brazilian is a member of the Amazon’s ...