Fires in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest surge each year in September, the tail end of the dry season, a Yomiuri Shimbun analysis of satellite data has found. On the ground, illegal ...

Fire has overtaken logging as the Amazon’s main driver of deforestation for the first time. As drought and heat intensify, ...

Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and ...

Loggers have entered the Trombetas River Biological Reserve in Oriximiná, in Brazil’s Pará state, to develop a forest management project that has divided the local Quilombola community. The reserve is ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the ...

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 ...

BRASILIA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Brazilian environmental agents this week shut down schemes involving hundreds of companies the agents said were covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...