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

On the Cerrado, Brazil’s highly biodiverse savanna, deforestation was up 9 percent compared to last year, however. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest, and two-thirds of it is in Brazil.

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in ...