The Brazilian Amazon witnessed a 7% annual drop in the amount of deforested land in 2024, even as the area affected by degradation increased multiple times over, according to a report published Friday ...

At its lowest level in the region for the past nine years in km2 *measured from the month of August to July in the year indicated Source: INPE The Barron's news department was not involved in the ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

The Brazilian Amazon is a critical ecosystem that plays a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity. However, it faces significant threats from land use change and deforestation ...

The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's term compared with the same period in 2022, the government says. Its suggests the ...

Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country ...

Deforestation by cattle farmers is pushing the Amazon closer to a tipping point at which the world's largest rainforest will ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities ... been a determinant factor," Miller said. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest ...