The new documentary 'We Are Guardians' examines the rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the efforts by local ...

This may not be the deepest film about the deforestation crisis, but it works as an effective call to action.

The Amazon Soy Moratorium, a sectoral agreement which protects the Brazilian Amazon from deforestation, is under threat.

An estimated 1.98 million hectares (4.89 million acres) of forest were cleared in 2022, a 21% increase from 2021. It was the worst year for deforestation since 2004, according to Amazon ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon soared by 55 percent in the first four months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.

Deforestation accounts for around 10% of the world’s total carbon emissions, according to the Rainforest Alliance. Wildfires have devastated the Amazon in recent years.

Having returned to the helm of the environment ministry in 2023, on July 2nd she was summoned before a committee in the lower ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon — Earth’s largest rainforest — is on a continued downward trajectory, according to data released today by Brazil’s national space research institute, ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon dropped substantially in the first six months of this year, perhaps signaling a reversal after years of losses in the vast rainforest. Accessibility links.

Amazon deforestation has steeply declined since the end of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s rule in 2022. Under that government, forest loss reached a 15-year high.

Fires, deforestation and drought hammered the Amazon in 2024 “Humanity’s window of opportunity to reverse this trend is shrinking, but still open.” ...