Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

Or has a drier climate become the new reality for the rainforest ... already affected around 13% of the biome, according to ...

Science is nearly 100% on this. Aa for the Amazon rainforest: According to researchers, the only way to avoid biome-wide collapse is to limit deforestation to 10% of the forest’s total cover ...

Healthy rainforest biomes are rich in biodiversity. It means lots of different plants and animals live there. Rainforests like the Amazon have lots of natural resources and are also a source of ...

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

Trekking through the Amazon rainforest is something that ... have learned to flourish in this environment, making the rainforest biome the most biodiverse in the world. The teak tree has a ...

With this tool, it was possible to precisely delineate areas of the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado vegetation (the Brazilian savannah-like biome), pastures and agricultural crops in a double-cropping ...

In 2024, record-breaking blazes scorched millions of hectares of native vegetation in the Amazon Rainforest and other biodiversity-rich biomes. The measure, decreed by environment minister Marina ...

With this tool, it was possible to precisely delineate areas of Amazon rainforest, Cerrado vegetation (the Brazilian savannah-like biome), pastures and agricultural crops in a double-cropping system, ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...