According to the study, alerts indicating forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 44% from 2023 to 2024—a 163% increase compared to 2022. Last year alone, 25,023 square kilometers (km² ...

As deforestation and climate change threaten to transform the Amazon, there is growing concern that the ecosystem may be ...

Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon rainforest in recent ...

An Indigenous Yine community in the Peruvian Amazon is reporting that uncontacted Mashco Piro people, who live nearby but rarely emerge from the forest, have recently come into their village. The ...

In Brazil, home to around 60% of the Amazon, organized crime like logging and drug trafficking thrived under the far-right presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, with severe environmental consequences.

Danielle I. Rappaport, Anshuman Swain, William F. Fagan, Ralph Dubayah, Douglas C. Morton, Animal soundscapes reveal key markers of Amazon forest degradation from fire and logging, Proceedings of the ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% in the 12 months through July from a year earlier, bringing deforestation to its lowest level in nine years, official data released last week said.

Agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources inspect logs seized from the Amazon rainforest during an operation to combat deforestation in Nova California ...