Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in a raid on Tuesday (June 2). They arrested about 30 people accused ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...

Selective forest cutting in the Amazon is on the rise, according to data released on Friday by the Brazilian government. INPE reported a 77% increase in the rate of cutting that’s typically associated ...

Police launched raids across Brazil on Thursday targeting environmental protection officials and companies allegedly involved in illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. The raids coincided with a ...

Brazilian authorities have busted a logging ring that used fake permits to cut 500,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest, reports Reuters. 155 illegal loggers were involved in the ring, which used ...

Brazilian environmental agents this week shut down schemes involving hundreds of companies the agents said were covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, according to government documents ...

Clearcutting, logging, and burning in the Amazon may affect snowfall in the U.S., according to a report in the Journal of Climate. Researchers estimate that deforestation in the Amazon could reduce ...