Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

However, a recent revival of the rubber tapper trade in the impoverished northern region of Brazil has brought new hope to ...

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

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

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

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

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 ...

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

Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.

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 eight ...

impact investors and financial institutions to promote a nature-based economy in the Amazon biome, which is under grave threat from deforestation for timber and illegal mining. According to the ...

The plantation is over 8,000ha, rife with problems caused by poor management and deforestation by the government-linked company Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Pahang (PKNP). Malaysiakini’s site ...