Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Brazil has struggled with water scarcity from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. For the past four years, the ...

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have ... It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than 16,000 plant ...

FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera ... Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% of Peru's territory ...

Reforestation startup Mombak has secured 100 million reais ($17.8 million) in a deal with Santander Brasil and Brazilian development bank BNDES, it said on Monday, eyeing rapid growth in the carbon ...

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest ... from the new assets: Trees aren’t known for spilling ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /CNW/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build sustainable ...

Sister Dorothy Stang was a Catholic nun who dedicated her life to saving the Amazon ... trees in the rainforest and replace them with grasslands for cattle to graze on, Brandalise said. “Brazil ...

Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil Biden spoke after becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru’s territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one ...