Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

criminals are exploiting rainforest to clear land Brazil's Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before. Historically low water ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon ... rainforest into Belém. Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area.

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking ... 1,455 square kilometres of rainforest was chopped down. Just in September. That's an area equivalent of Greater London.

“It is a cruel irony that a highway destroying the Amazon rainforest is being built for a climate summit ... “We are going to lose an area to release these animals back into the wild, the natural ...

Despite a 72 percent decrease in burned area compared to the first three months of 2024, the Amazon was still the hardest-hit biome in early 2025 in terms of size. A total of 774,000 hectares ...

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is vital to curbing catastrophic global warming because of the vast amount of ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...