Half of the world's forests were destroyed during the 20th century, with three regions mainly affected: South America, West Africa and Southeast Asia. The situation has worsened to the point that, in ...

Sebastião Salgado, a renowned photojournalist who died last week, spent decades capturing an Amazon that is fast disappearing ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Deforestation pledges will go up in flames if we ignore inequality - THE ECO CHAMBER: With wildfires reaching new and ...

Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

and receive a Canada Proud Manitoba Strong mug and sticker FREE! Enjoy unlimited reading ... who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil ... recent changes to the law are linked to the EU’s deforestation-free regulation. In interviews with Peruvian media ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

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