Satellite data show a 37% deforestation decrease in the world's largest rainforest last year, the lowest level of Amazon ...

The figures come months before Brazil’s presidential election, with Lula promising to end illegal deforestation by 2030.

Every year wind-swept dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa travels over the Atlantic Ocean, which can be seen by satellites. The dust plume “regularly fertilizes soils” in the Amazon rainforest in ...

Environmentalists say monitoring — enforcement of the laws — is responsible in large part for the steady decline, which has ...

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Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

A boiling river in the heart of the Amazon sounds like something out of a legend. Yet deep inside Peru's rainforest, the ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is seeking re-election in October elections, has promised to eradicate ...

Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas whose concentration in the atmosphere has risen sharply in recent decades. Wetlands ...

Carbon credits bought by companies to offset their emissions really have reduced deforestation, but not by as much as credit ...