Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in eight years during the most recent monitoring period, according to new data from the Brazilian Human and Environment Amazon Institute, ...

Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

A new scientific study has provided compelling evidence supporting a long-held belief among Indigenous communities: the destruction of the Amazon rainforest directly impacts human health. Published in ...

The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback with as little as 1.5°C of global warming ...

Drug traffickers, illegal miners and criminal syndicates are rapidly expanding across the Amazon, pushing the rainforest closer to ecological collapse.

Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth.

The study said that without additional deforestation, such large-scale drying of the Amazon would likely occur only at much ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...