Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, ...

Recent research shows that there is considerable overlap in the important corridors for jaguars and key freshwater species, highlighting the potential for integrated conservation.

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences ...

This year’s U.N. climate conference, on the edge of the rainforest, is fueling criticism of the host nation and the entire ...

The images, analysed by MapBiomas, clearly showed a loss of 49.1 million hectares or 121 million acres of rainforest between ...

New research reveals "unprecedented" conservation results of community-based management of protected areas in the Amazon—as many face a future in which they may become increasingly degraded due to low ...

Brazil is betting big on future rewards to save tropical forest, but critics fear nature will receive a “price tag.” ...

The first study of its kind, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), gathered data from 1,733 municipalities representing more than 74% of the Amazon to find that forests on ...

New study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of ...

The Amazon was approaching a "point of no return" of 20 to 25 percent vegetation loss at which it "ceases to sustain itself as a rainforest," said Bruno Ferreira, a researcher at the MapBiomas ...

The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned ...