As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

According to the Brazilian space research institute INPE, the Deter alerting system registered deforestation of 739 sq km in May Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to ...

In the heart of Brazil's Amazon, the village of Metuktire preserves its traditions, nurtures its people and holds the line ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a ...

Nearly all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the past year was illegal, a new report finds. Between August 2023 and July 2024, 91% of forest clearing in the Amazon lacked authorization ...

Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon rainforest in recent ...

Secondary roads accounted for forest loss and ... the full scale of road-induced deforestation. Impacts extended up to 68 kilometers from first-cut roads in the Brazilian Amazon, compared to ...