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 ...

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 ...

A recent study published by Imazon, the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, demonstrates how difficult it is to punish land grabbing in the Brazilian rainforest. The researchers analyzed ...

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

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

ALTAMIRA, Brazil - If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold.

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

"The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point," said Andrew Miller, advocacy ...

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

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

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