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

The vast forest–river system of the Amazon basin is changing rapidly ... Although a C budget for the basin remains uncertain, deforestation has moved the net basin-wide budget away from a ...

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.

Countries in the Amazon Basin are falling behind on their targets to cut deforestation. Environmental enforcement combined with economic incentives could provide a way forward. By Lisa Viscidi and ...

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 ...

Deforestation is continuing in the Amazon basin as the cattle and soy industries expand. The main conservation policy there involves ‘protected areas’: areas designated by national governments ...

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 ...

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.

The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world's sixth largest by water volume. ... DEFORESTATION IN BRAZIL INCREASED 30% IN 12 MONTHS, AGENCY SAYS .

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.