As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

COP30 Spotlight: counting the cost of Amazon hydropower to local indigenous communities.

The colonization of what is now Brazil began in 1500 when explorer ... constructions hidden beneath the canopy in the Amazon rainforest basin. The constructions are earthworks built in the pre- ...

Fires in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Region Surge for Third Month ... Extremely low water levels in the Amazon basin were also clearly visible from the air, with large swathes of sandy river ...

If that’s not scary enough, another tale tells the story of a man who attempted to fell one of the ancient trees… but the ...

An initiative in Brazil focuses on new roads, dams, and industry that can threaten the region’s fragile rainforest ecosystem ... it will open the central Amazon basin to even more deforestation.

Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, and some rivers are falling ... The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world’s sixth-largest by water volume.

The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

AFUÁ, Brazil — Brazilian politicians ... the Conquest of the Amazon Frontier. This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

RIO DE JANEIRO — When the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Brazilian city of Manaus ... Instead he focuses on the Amazon rain forest. Feb. 12, 2020 For observers of the church, it will come ...