By Rhett Ayers Butler As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is ...

Brazil’s government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a ...

Fires in the Amazon Rainforest have surged to record-breaking levels, highlighting the region’s ‘growing ecological fragility'.

Colombia becomes the first country in Latin America to adopt a national satellite-based wildfire monitoring system, ...

Scientists have quantified how much more fire-prone South America has become in recent decades, as several parts of the continent experience severe wildfires. Some regions in South America are ...

Red John is an established figure among the landowners and ranchers of the Brazilian Amazon. He is the one who helps clear ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost ...

Fires sweeping through the Amazonian rainforest are shocking to see, but they're not the only cause of climate-change-enabling deforestation. A brush fire in the Atlantic Forest in 2017. Photo: Getty ...

Cornell Students for Animal Rights and Cornell Vegan Society stood in solidarity outside of Barton Hall during Sunday’s ClubFest, bearing signs of “Burning the Amazon is Genocide” and “Take Action” to ...