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 ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and ...

A new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP) finds that 15% of the Amazon basin’s ...

Global deforestation slowed last year, helped by gains in Latin America, but rising forest loss in Central Africa and an exceptionally strong El Nino weather pattern mean the improvement is ...

Global deforestation dropped 15% in 2025, but persistent forest losses in Africa threaten international commitments to end ...

The Amazon forest has recently experienced substantial human-induced loss of forest cover. However, the extent to which such historical deforestation has altered regional observed precipitation ...

The Amazon Basin, as Earth’s largest tropical forest, exerts a profound influence on regional and global climate through complex interactions between vegetation, the atmosphere and the hydrological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 7 mn hectares of forest -- roughly the size of Ireland -- were permanently destroyed in 2025 (Glody MURHABAZI) Deforestation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Congo Basin Forest, the world's second largest rainforest after the Amazon, covers two-thirds of DR Congo's surface Seven ...