The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said Monday.

When a destroyed section of the Amazon rainforest begins to recover, nature deploys only a few tree species that can withstand poor soil conditions and blazing sun and grow rapidly, a Brazilian study ...

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. A warming climate fed ...

The Brazilian state of Pará has recognized over 1.3 million acres of some of the tallest and most valuable trees in the Amazon rainforest as a protected area, according to Good News Network. Pará ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Peru’s government has established the Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area in the Loreto region of the Amazon Rainforest. This new ...

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. A warming climate fed ...

Between 2018 and 2022, agricultural expansion was linked to the loss of 8.6 million hectares of Amazon forest — an area larger than Austria. A new WWF analysis shows that cattle ranching and soy ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In recent decades, the Amazon Rainforest has repeatedly and increasingly been struck by devastating drought along with record heat due to climate ...

The southwest of the Amazon rain forest has long been regarded as a pristine wilderness, undisturbed by large scale human ...

Which countries have the most forest? See the 15 largest forest areas in 2025, led by Russia, Brazil and Canada, with data ...