Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...

At its lowest level in the region for the past nine years in km2 *measured from the month of August to July in the year ...

Although the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) mentions slowing deforestation rates in its “State of the World’s ...

In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the ...

Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to ...

These results are being celebrated as a major win for conservationists and climate advocates. The Brazilian government, led ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced its highest number of fires in 17 years in 2024, government data published last week ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced its highest number of fires in 17 years in 2024, government data published Wednesday ...

A bonfire crackles in the center of an Indigenous open-air pavilion atop a hill in the Putumayo jungle, adding warmth to the ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently ...