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 ...

Climate extremes are intensifying fastest in an unexpected part of the Amazon, where extreme dry-season temperatures are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Forest clearing detected by Brazil’s deforestation alert system fell to the lowest level in nearly five years. According to data released last week ...

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 ...

FILE - A river borders an area that has been illegally deforested by land-grabbers and cattle farmers in an extractive reserve in Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, July 11, 2023. AGUA CLARA, Brazil ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which ...

The Amazon is changing faster than many researchers once thought possible, and the signals are no longer subtle. From record fires and creeping savannization to a looming “hypertropical” climate shift ...

The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...

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 ...