Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

French banking groups Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and BPCE have been discreetly investing in the oil and gas industry ...

As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to ...

Global deforestation remains a pressing concern, but in Indonesia, home to the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest, deforestation rates remain below their peak from 8–10 years ago, despite chall ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Although the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) mentions slowing deforestation rates in its “State of the World’s ...

Authorities are also investigating the colonies since some of the land grab coincides with Indigenous communities. Satellite ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced its highest number of fires in 17 years in 2024, government data published last week ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

"Unfortunately, it’s always the most vulnerable communities that are hardest hit." River in world's largest rainforest on ...