Authorities are also investigating the colonies since some of the land grab coincides with Indigenous communities. Satellite ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced its highest number of fires in 17 years in 2024, government data published last week ...

These results are being celebrated as a major win. New data shows encouraging drop in damaging practice in the Amazon — but ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

At its lowest level in the region for the past nine years in km2 *measured from the month of August to July in the year ...