By Maxwell Radwin Each year, researchers at the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab in the U.S. develop one of the most ...

The Amazon’s protected areas are “expensive to manage” because “many are vast” and “some are difficult to reach”, so a field ...

By Aimee Gabay A crackdown by the Brazilian government on land-grabbers who cleared primary Amazon forest for ranching and ...

After reporting showed that beef connected to illegally deforested land was reaching Colombian stores, the country passed a ...

The decline in deforestation is largely due to the strengthening of monitoring and control mechanisms, but this could be undermined by a bill that restricts environmental enforcement ...

The Brazilian Amazon experienced a 47% decrease in deforestation in April compared to last year, marking the lowest level in five years, and a 51% decrease over the past 12 months. Since President ...

Colombia has enacted a law aimed at preventing cattle linked to deforestation from entering beef supply chains by connecting ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest increased in July for the first time in 15 months, according to official data released Wednesday. An area of 666 square kilometers (250 square miles) was ...

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, and ...

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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016, when ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.