Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agents of the National Security Force burn illegal mining equipment during an operation by Brazilian authorities against the ...

July 15 (UPI) --The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators -- continues to face serious threats in 2025. New data show that pressure on the ecosystem has ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

A new report by Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) states that Casino Group’s beef supply chain could be linked to up to 526,459 hectares (about 1.3 million acres) of deforestation in ...

Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA) – which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states – is more than 5 million square ...

Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for planting soya beans in the Amazon Rainforest, Vilhena - Rondonia state [Courtesy Andre Dib, WWF Brazil] Since 2007, Marcelo Salazar has been ...

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The Amazon rainforest experienced its most devastating fire season in over two decades during 2024. The 2024 fires released substantial amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which roughly ...

This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil, when the road disappeared into what I thought was fog. When I got out of the car, ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --Organized crime and illicit economies emerged in 2025 as major drivers worsening deforestation across the Amazon, despite partial gains in environmental enforcement in some countries ...