Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas roughly the size of El Salvador to disappear, ...

Brazil allegedly chopped down trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a highway to the COP30 climate conference. As DW can show, the claim is very misleading.

COP30 is expected to hold talks on “ending deforestation” after developers carved a four-lane highway through protected ...

Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure.

More than eight times as much money ($3.1bn) was invested in activities which damage Brazil’s forests between 2020 and 2024 ...

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Like hospital patients, the vital signs of 61 of the trees are measured, including sap and carbon dioxide flow, respiration ...