By Vanessa Romo “People think that because we live in the forest we have plenty of water, but this is the reality,” Erick ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Countries remain 70% off track to meet a goal to end deforestation by 2030, as progress in Latin America offset by failures in Africa ...

Global deforestation slowed last year, helped by gains in Latin America, but rising forest loss in Central Africa and an ...

A 33% drop in forest loss across the region drove a global improvement, but uncertainty surrounding Brazil’s elections and ...

On 4 October, Brazilians will go to the polls to elect a president and government. Former president Jair Bolsonaro, under house arrest, cannot run. But his son Flávio is on the ballot. If elected, the ...