SAO PAULO — Brazil's banks will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit ...

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 ...

After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.