Human activity, like deforestation, is turning the Amazon rainforest from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter. The Amazon ...

Explore the complex history and causes of Amazon rainforest deforestation, from government infrastructure projects and ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest deforestation reportedly declined by 42% between August 2025 and July 2026, reaching its lowest recorded level since 1988. Satellite monitoring data attributed to Inpe ...

The re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to lead to continued rainforest protections. His opponent ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1988, Brazil's government has announced. Annual loss between August 2025 to July 2026 stood at 3,335 square ...

Global deforestation dropped 15% in 2025, but persistent forest losses in Africa threaten international commitments to end ...

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works inside the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, one of the ...

A new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP) finds that 15% of the Amazon basin’s ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — While Brazil’s presidential candidates have not made policy of the Amazon a major campaign topic, climate ...

Lula’s victory in Brazil's presidential election brings hope for the Amazon – but far-right gains threaten progress. View on ...

Heading into the first round of voting on Sunday, the front-runners are Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is seeking ...