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 ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

These results are being celebrated as a major win. New data shows encouraging drop in damaging practice in the Amazon — but ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

Once a symbol of Amazonian deforestation, Paragominas, Brazil, has transformed into a beacon of sustainable development, ...

In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the ...

Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities ... Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped ...