A new study found that deforestation in the Amazon doesn’t just raise temperatures in the areas where the deforestation took place but rather throughout the entire region. Researchers analyzed ...

Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable Amazon from deforestation following a landmark summit in Brazil Tuesday, a concerning outcome as ...

Environmental impact assessments failed to account for the full scale of road-induced deforestation. Impacts extended up to 68 kilometers from first-cut roads in the Brazilian Amazon, compared to ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 66% last month compared to July 2022 and is now at its lowest rate in six years, according to preliminary data released by Brazil’s National ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Amazon accounts for 20% of land photosynthesis which can take away carbon dioxide molecules from the air.

Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states—is more than 5 million square ...

Amazon Deforestation: Study Reveals Its Alarming Impact on Global Warming, Climate Change A new study sheds light on the alarming consequence of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Human activity and drought have degraded more than a third of the remaining Amazon rainforest, on top of the impacts of deforestation.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell almost 10% in May from the previous year, preliminary government data showed on Wednesday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration ...