Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

The Amazon rainforest is in trouble. According to Earth.com, 1,539 square miles of it, or an area around five times the size ...

Since the late 1960s, during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-85), the federal government has pushed for infrastructure in the Amazon Rainforest. Now, with the prospect of delivering ...

2025 /CNW/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build sustainable livelihoods. With support ...

Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an equal say as politicians when the country hosts this year's UN climate ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares — about 60% of Peru’s territory, according to the nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one of ...