In 2023, hydro-electricity accounted for nearly half of Brazil's installed energy capacity, and more than 60% of its total ...

One in ten known species on Earth lives in the Amazon. Its forests contain 90-140 billion metric ... infrastructure projects coupled with poor planning are contributing to deforestation and increased ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin ...

Brazil's Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (Deter), of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), reported Thursday that deforestation in the Amazon in the first semester of 2023 had ...

At COP16 in Cali, WWF, in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology, Trase, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), launched an eye-opening report, “Uncovering Sub-Regional ...

Far from international forums and economical centers, locals in one of the Amazon deforestation hotspots seek alternatives to agribusiness and gold mines. Mongabay went to Pará state’s ...

Nearly all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the past year was illegal, a new report finds. Between August 2023 and ...

the suit alleges that Amazon’s bleaching process harms the environment and that its use of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) logo misleads consumers about the true deforestation impact of its ...

Data from 92 first-cut roads in the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and New Guinea provided insight into the scale of human impacts ...