This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past ...

Despite its noble intent to secure the livelihoods of tribals, the Forest Rights Act has inadvertently opened the door to ...

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal ...

Dubbed the Avenida Liberdade highway, the new stretch of highway cuts across tens of thousands of acres of rainforest located ...

As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 climate summit, a stretch of rainforest is being cleared for a highway to welcome world ...

In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and ...

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of ...

Nearly all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the past year was illegal, a new report finds. Between August 2023 and July 2024, 91% of forest clearing in the Amazon lacked authorization ...

The researchers highlighted two major deforestation hotspots: a northern area covering Bahia and Minas Gerais, where eucalyptus plantations and pasture expansions dominated; and a southern hotspot in ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...