Colombia and Peru are the world's largest cocaine producers, data from the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) shows, and US government data shows they are also South America's top ...
Brazilian Amazon states are leading an offensive against ... “This is exactly where the ‘arc of deforestation’ is, where most forest fires occur and where there are many agrarian conflicts.” ...
More than 87,000 forest fires were recorded in the country in the first eight months of the year, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The Amazon is the world’s ...
Brazil: The Amazon on FireBrazil is often at the forefront of forest fire discussions, particularly due to the Amazon ...
This year, severe new threats are adding to the ongoing destruction of the Amazon. While the world is focused on the global COVID-19 pandemic, new laws have been proposed by the Brazilian Government ...
Forest destruction is a crisis for the whole planet ... We’ve had our successes, but the challenges keep growing too. We helped reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 75% between 2004 and 2012. But ...
Top rugby side Saracens has been accused of “sharing in the shame” of major environmental destruction after allegations that ...
Randy Borman was never meant to be Cofán. And yet, from the moment he was born in 1955, deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he ...
Brazil experienced a dramatic surge in forest fires in 2024 ... which is 58% of the overall destruction. For the first time in recorded history, the Amazon saw more forests destroyed by fire ...
Stretching along South America's east coast and extending inland towards the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest is one of the world’s most ecologically diverse regions. It is also one of the most vulnerable.