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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

In this latest study, the researchers wanted to know if deforestation in the Amazon was resulting in climate warming further afield, and the study examined the impact of forest loss on sites up to ...