The figures come months before Brazil’s presidential election, with Lula promising to end illegal deforestation by 2030.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth. It is also the world's largest source of biogenic ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in a decade in the first half of the year, according to ...

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new ...

Kerry Bowman is a bioethicist and environmentalist at the University of Toronto who is currently engaged in humanitarian and ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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.

Lesly, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin lived in the Amazon rainforest for over a month after their plane crashed Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia's president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.

The extreme investigators at How to Survive go deep into the dense rainforest to demonstrate the critical endurance skills ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon ...