Brazil's environment minister Edson Duarte said in a statement that illegal logging was the main factor behind the increase in deforestation ... of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest ...

We’ve had our successes, but the challenges keep growing too. We helped reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 75% between 2004 and 2012. But since then deforestation has been on the increase, with the ...

If these trends continue unchecked, they could disrupt continental rainfall patterns and trigger a sharp decline in species that depend on the rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon has been ...

We’ve seen fires devastating precious places like the Amazon rainforest. But what are the facts and what are the myths about the destruction of our forests? We’re here to help. While growing demand ...

At COP16 in Cali, WWF, in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology, Trase, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), launched an eye-opening report, “Uncovering Sub-Regional ...

By Shanna Hanbury Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear ...

It is estimated that nearly twenty percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down in the last fifty years, and the rate of this deforestation has increased in recent years.

The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity. The broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome covers most of northwestern Brazil and ...

Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in the Amazon Rainforest ... (EUDR): When it goes into effect at the end of 2025, the ...