A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

In 2021 alone, nearly 2 million hectares of primary forest — the most ecologically significant forests on Earth for carbon storage — were lost across the region, according to the Monitoring of the ...

A report by the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG) claims that 26% of Amazon forests have transformed irreversibly and show high levels of degradation.

COP28 celebrates the strong downward trend in deforestation in the Amazon over the last year, but also reveals a conflict between Amazonian nations over fossil fuels.

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 drops by 31% compared to last year The Amazon, ... The basin also holds about 20% of the world’s fresh water and biodiversity includes 16,000 known tree species.

The destruction is so vast now that the eastern Amazon, just east of Xingu basin, has ceased to be a carbon sink, or absorber, for the Earth and has converted into a carbon source, according to a ...

Yet deforestation there rose by 275% in 2024 (albeit from a low base) owing to wildfires and illegal gold mining. Against climate change, even the best intentions can be easily dashed.

In the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists try new approach against deforestation and poverty Jose Alves de Morais maneuvers a boat in Carauari, Brazil, on Sept. 1, 2022.

An investigation by environmental nonprofit Earthsight said the Tapestry-owned brand is at risk of sourcing leather linked to ...