See All Key Ideas In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and international pressure, the federal government decided to ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 ...

Map by Mongabay. The Lábrea municipality ... In 2024, Lábrea had the sixth-highest count of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, with more than 3,700 fires detected by satellites.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

Several buildings in the city of Buriticupu, in the north eastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, have already been destroyed with 1,200 people at risk of losing their homes to the widening abyss.

The COP30 summit will be the first UN climate summit held in the Amazon. "When we get together in the Brazilian Amazon in November, we must listen to the latest science and re-evaluate the ...

Aerial view of an acaí palm plantation in Abaetetuba, Para State, in the Brazilian Amazon Forest, on August 4, 2023. © Photo by Evaristo SA / AFP This November, the ...

The researchers highlighted two major deforestation hotspots: a northern area covering Bahia and Minas Gerais, where eucalyptus plantations and pasture expansions dominated; and a southern hotspot in ...