Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6 percent compared to the previous year, officials said, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost ...
oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon River and building a railway to transport soy to Amazonian ports. Brazil’s deforestation monitoring system tracks Aug. 1 to July 30, so Wednesday's report ...
The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to ...
A new report reveals the Amazon rainforest has suffered a devastating setback after conservation efforts lowered the deforestation rate in Brazil by nearly 50% in 2023. While Indigenous communities ...