The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin ...

Colombia's Procurator’s Office says the country has lost nearly 88,900 hectares of forest — an area larger than New York City ...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, at the inaugural forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice during the ...

In September 2024, the landscape in the Middle Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon lay in stark contrast to its usual ...

The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already ...

BELEM, Brazil -- In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it will ...

Researchers found that between 2002 and 2015, a 3.2% reduction in Brazilian forest cover led to a 5.4% reduction in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Madeira River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, has been losing water flow over the last 20 years while facing severe droughts. The water ...

BELEM, Brazil — In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November ... to protect two lakes, a river basin and to restore a degraded rainforest.

Rising ocean temperatures due to human-caused climate change have spurred this ... Used in the American heartland as well as in the Amazon basin where there’s been rapid deforestation for ...

The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...