Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest ... The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is considered key to the fight against climate change because of the vast amounts ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion, flooding and global warming. International agreements ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest slowed over the last ... Last year, Brazil and Colombia helped drive the rate of tropical forest loss towards a 9 percent decrease ...

Learn about what threatens the wet, layered forest and what you can do to help. 2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest ... of the Brazilian deforestation mapping initiative ...