Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about ...

In 2023, hydro-electricity accounted for nearly half of Brazil's installed energy capacity, and more than 60% of its total ...

February 20, 2025 Colombia deforestation rose 35% in 2024 ... targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon rainforest in recent weeks, officials told Reuters.

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

In Brazil, the Groves' Titi, a bushy-bearded monkey is listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for ...

as it eliminates the need for state authorization before converting forest land, potentially accelerating Amazon deforestation. Critics argue it legitimizes illegal deforestation, threatening ...

The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), had ventured far from its fast-shrinking home on a hill in a small patch of ...