BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

By Maxwell Radwin Each year, researchers at the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab in the U.S. develop one of the most ...

You would think that with all the warnings about deforestation and its impact on climate change, deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest would continue its decline. Actually, it has gotten worse – much ...

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

FILE - A river borders an area that has been illegally deforested by land-grabbers and cattle farmers in an extractive reserve in Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, July 11, 2023. AGUA CLARA, Brazil ...

Falling Amazon deforestation alerts in Brazil could mark an important moment for forest wildlife if the trend continues.

Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's government reported on Thursday a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a ...