Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous nations, but also the ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil soared 85% in 2019, compared with the previous year, official data showed Tuesday. The 9,166 square kilometers cleared was the highest ...

However, INPE’s DETER alert system also recorded a sharp rise in forest degradation. Deforestation in 2024 versus 2023 in the Brazilian Amazon according to Imazon’s SAD system. Forest ...

As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon is industrial farming. Setting fire to the forest is one of the main ways humans get rid of trees. Burning trees also makes the forest ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...

More than 87,000 forest fires were recorded in the country ... working with corporations that are responsible for deforestation in the Amazon. “There are more than 300 McDonald’s, KFC and ...

Illegal deforestation is wiping out a significant portion of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. According to a report by Mongabay, satellite images have recently revealed that deforestation around ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

Although deforestation in the Amazon is slowing down, the condition of one of the world's primary tropical forests remains critical. What are the causes of this? What are the consequences for the ...

According to WWF, cattle ranching accounts for around 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. This isn’t just catastrophic for wildlife and biodiversity, but it’s also driving up ...