The BR-319 is famed as one of South America's most challenging drives, but those who attempt it are rewarded with an ...

Nearly a decade ago, Juan Julio Durand co-founded Junglekeepers in Peru with a simple yet ambitious goal: to protect the ...

On Thursday, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announced that between August 2023 and July 2024, 6,288 square ...

Yearly deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by almost a third since August 2023, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, plummeting to a nine-year low after historic droughts and ...

the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 percent of South America -- has lost about 20 percent of its area to deforestation, due to the spread of agriculture and cattle ranching ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing ... Clearing the trees also creates areas for cattle ranching, soybean farming, and the construction of roads and houses.

For the year ending July 31, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers ... a wooded savanna heavily impacted by large-scale soy and cattle production in recent decades.

COP30 will be the first COP held in the Amazon rainforest and will see the debut of a new ... Mendes — who fought for ...