BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency ...

The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...

Alongside the extraordinary fluvial discharges and the intense tidal currents, vigorous currents induced by the wind and an active western boundary current make this area one of the most energetic ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

SAO PAULO(AP) — As Brazil seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that ...

BOGOTA, July 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Peruvian indigenous groups equipped with remote sensing technology and satellite-based alerts have been helping to track and report forest loss in the ...