South America Will Pledge to End Amazon Deforestation by 2030 1 minute read Aerial view of a burning area of Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, on Aug. 16, 2020.

HSBC has been accused of funding deforestation in one of South America’s largest forests, increasing scrutiny of the bank’s climate policy under Georges Elhedery, its new chief. The lender ...

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

Researchers think that this type of silvopasture could reduce deforestation in Latin America. ... El Hatico is constantly welcoming South American farmers who want to learn about silvopasture.

While the conditions have existed in South America before, the frequency at which the fire-risk days are happening today "cannot be compared what used to be normal in the 80s," Cordero said.

European banks accused of financing deforestation in South America. Campaigners are calling for policymakers to include finance providers in forthcoming EU regulations banning deforestation-linked ...

The province of Chaco is part of the American Gran Chaco, the largest forested region in South America after the Amazon and spans between Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. It has some of ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the ...

Deforestation in South America increased after the tariff war between the United States and China in 2018 (R. Fuchs et al. Environ. Res. Lett. 19, 091005; 2024).

Scientists warn the Amazon may be nearing a tipping point of irreversible collapse, threatening the water cycles and agricultural lifelines of South America. Deforestation is no longer just an ...