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.

Having returned to the helm of the environment ministry in 2023, on July 2nd she was summoned before a committee in the lower ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Fany Kuiru, who is head of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), said: “We’re looking at (the bioeconomy) as products that are unique, that come from ...

In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years ... President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to halt deforestation completely by 2030.