The 30th UN Climate Conference has opened this week in Belem, deep within the Amazon. The setting itself speaks louder than ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has dubbed COP30 the forest COP. Taking place in Belém, a large urban center in ...

In the far west of Brazil's Amazon, in Tabatinga, walls are scrawled with drug gang graffiti. At the city's jail, half the ...

Indigenous leader Tomas Candia hopes the light rains that began this week over parts of Bolivia's Amazon rainforest will ...

"Red John" is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon. He helps clears pastures cheaply, but ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

Brazil's government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a decade, helped by stronger enforcement and monitoring.

Amid the preparatory discussions for COP30, which also involve health-related topics, a study contributes to our understanding of the relationship between deforestation and the spread of malaria in ...

In theory, stopping the deforestation of the Amazon is among the cheapest ways of curbing global warming. Brazil’s “Legal Amazon” region, which encompasses nine states and 60% of the entire forest ...

The wildfire that began early Monday morning is now estimated to have burned 100 acres by Knob Point as of Wednesday morning. The Knob Point fire, as it is now called, is about nine miles southeast of ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...