Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and ... “Everything was destroyed,” said Claudio Verequete, who lives about a quarter-mile from the roadway in ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

Indigenous leaders have warned that the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest stretching across ... has been “irreversibly destroyed”. The huge forest, which is packed with 511 ...

A huge four-lane highway is being built in the Amazon rainforest, destroying protected areas. The new road is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém, which will ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

Around 17–20% of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed, with almost all of the deforested areas being turned into cattle ranches. One estimate suggests that over 900,000 square kilometres ...

according to government data released on Wednesday -- the smallest area destroyed in the world's largest rainforest in nine years. Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were ...

However, he added that deforestation, which has destroyed roughly 20% of the Amazon, is an easier problem to solve than the impact of climate change on the rainforest, which is struggling with a ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and ... “Everything was destroyed,” said Claudio Verequete, who lives about a quarter-mile from the roadway in ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.