Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, ...

New state-level legislation in Brazil, including the withdrawal of tax incentives for companies adhering to the ASM, is ...

Colombia lost forest cover in the fragile Amazon part of the country in 2024 which was much higher than in 2023 which had the ...

The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the ...

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been on an upward trend since 2012, reversing a near-decade-long decline in the rate of forest clearing. About 20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s rainforest ...

Colombia's government said on Thursday that deforestation in the South American country increased as much as 43% in 2024 ...

By Luciana Magalhaes SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian payments company Stone said on Monday it has secured 295 million reais ...

That will be the next focus for future studies, Dr. Butt said. As for the Amazon, reducing deforestation could cut future warming in the south by 0.56°C, according to the study.

RIO DE JANEIRO — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term ...

Afro-descendant peoples in four Amazon countries show remarkable achievements in environmental stewardship, according to new ...

But the rate now detected is the highest for any year since 2008. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who has reported on deforestation in the Amazon, called it a "huge jump" in the deforestation rate.