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

"It gets lost between roads, gated communities, and other human interventions." Expert issues urgent warning over dire ...

At ESA's Living Planet Symposium, scientists have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA's Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on ...

Thousands of people used to cross the Darién Gap every day. Emerging from the rainforest, they would stop in small towns ...

Half of the world's forests were destroyed during the 20th century, with three regions mainly affected: South America, West Africa and Southeast Asia. The situation has worsened to the point that ...

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

The total area deforested in South America's biggest country was 32.4 percent lower than in 2023, some 1.24 million hectares, the report by monitoring agency MapBiomas said Thursday.

Previous analysis of satellite imagery has linked Cresud to more than 170,000 hectares of deforestation in South America since 2001 – an area size more than three times larger than Madrid, Spain.

Deforestation last year slowed in all of Brazil’s nature biomes for the first time in six years, according to a report issued months before the country hosts a major UN climate conference at the end ...

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).

Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 percent of South America -- has lost about 20 percent of its area to deforestation, due to the spread of agriculture and ...