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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...