Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the ...

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

President Lula is pledging to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030 and is calling for a reduction of greenhouse gases by 67% compared with 2005 levels.

In a groundbreaking move, stingless bees in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been granted legal rights, becoming the world's ...

More than 11 thousand years ago, humans were still dwelling in the Amazon rainforest. Back then, however, desires were fewer, and needs not many. By storing up an enormous stock of the planet’s carbon ...

This NASA image from August 20 shows the cross country smoke resulting from the wildfires. Wildfires are currently burning so intensely in the Amazon rainforest that smoke from the blaze has covered ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost for the country just days before it hosts UN climate talks. Brazil is home to ...

ICEYE's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation closes that gap. SAR imagery operates day and night through all weather ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's government reported on Thursday a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil more than doubled in January compared with the previous year, according to official data published Friday. More than 280 square kilometers (110 square ...