In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 66.11% in August to its lowest level for the month since 2018, Environment Minister Marina Silva said on Tuesday, in a significant mark for its environmental ...

Deforestation of tropical rainforests is causing droughts The world's tropical rainforests are still getting hit hard by ... which breaks the cycle. SMITH: When we're removing trees, ...

In 2021, almost every head of state in the world committed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 in the Glasgow Declaration on Forests. And the United Nations clearly stated that any credible ...

Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action is not taken in the coming decades, according to a ...

How Amazon forest loss may affect water—and climate—far away. A surge in deforestation under Brazil's president could "tip" the Amazon, affecting weather and water supplies—in Brazil and beyond.

The European Space Agency’s satellite will measure trunks, branches and stems in forests to shed light on how much carbon is ...

The floods devastating southern Brazil have been exacerbated by deforestation, much of it driven by soybean farming, according to experts, who urge the country to restore its forests and their ...

Deforestation—the clearing of forested land with the intention of converting it into non-forest uses—is a global problem with far-reaching consequences, some of which may not be fully ...

Deforestation is resulting in reduced rainfall across large parts of the tropics, according to new research. People living in tropical forest communities have often complained that the climate ...

At his inauguration on Jan. 1 as Brazil’s new president, Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated a promise to reach zero deforestation and to recover degraded land. He’d already made the same ...