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

Environmental organizations worldwide have warned that deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is close to reaching a point of no return, something which has worsened under President Jair Bolsonaro.

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 ...

Since world leaders pledged to halt and reverse global deforestation at the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow an ...

Nobre: This is a synergistic combination of droughts induced by global warming, combined with deforestation in the Southern Amazon—mostly for pastures for cattle ranches. And when those forests go, ...

Designating land as Indigenous territory -- where deforestation is a crime -- has proven effective ... wildfires. The ...

The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ...

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit. Along the partially ...

deforestation prompted one of the world’s most isolated Indigenous tribes to emerge from a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon. Huge fire rips through Paris just five years after Notre Dame ...