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 ...

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

Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight ...

These results are being celebrated as a major win for conservationists and climate advocates. The Brazilian government, led ...

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

Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently ...

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 ...

Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.

Image Promoted by the Pulitzer Center, the Stories from the Amazon Film Festival took place in the Brazilian states of ...

The already threatened Amazon rainforest in Brazil suffered its highest number of fires in 17 years throughout 2024, ...