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

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, at the inaugural forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice during the ...

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

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

BELEM, Brazil -- In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it will ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

It is also the Brazilian state with the largest amount of carbon emissions, as deforestation accounts for roughly half of the country’s total output. The Amazon rainforest is an important ...

Brazil is the world's biggest beef exporter, but most of its herd is in the Amazon, the world's largest and most biodiverse rainforest. Research shows cattle ranching there is a major driver of ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A settlement involving federal prosecutors and Brazilian meat packers has helped wean much of the country's beef supply chain from links to Amazon rainforest destruction ...

In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a ...