Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

Throughout a year in which Latin America saw elections in six countries and prepared for the biodiversity COP16 in Colombia, ...

In an age of rapid technological innovation, the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with emerging ...

BBC environment journalists analyse the key events coming up in 2025 with game-changing potential for climate and nature.

Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, transforming all areas of our lives and leaving barely any aspect of it unimpacted.  This is not a new phenomenon by any degree. Many centuries ago, the ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Authorities are also investigating the colonies since some of the land grab coincides with Indigenous communities. Satellite ...

"Unfortunately, it’s always the most vulnerable communities that are hardest hit." River in world's largest rainforest on ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the ...