Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

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Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight ...

As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

These results are being celebrated as a major win for conservationists and climate advocates. The Brazilian government, led ...

"Unfortunately, it’s always the most vulnerable communities that are hardest hit." River in world's largest rainforest on ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Although the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) mentions slowing deforestation rates in its “State of the World’s ...

Scientists examined around 23,500 species of dragonflies, fish, crabs and other animals that depend exclusively on freshwater ...