By Rhett Ayers Butler As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is ...

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

Brazil's government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a ...

Tens of thousands of fires swept through the Brazilian Amazon during the recently concluded forest fire season, with the environmental organization WWF reporting on Monday that the blazes destroyed an ...

Red John is an established figure among the landowners and ranchers of the Brazilian Amazon. He is the one who helps clear ...

Fires in the Amazon Rainforest have surged to record-breaking levels, highlighting the region’s ‘growing ecological fragility'.

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

Fires sweeping through the Amazonian rainforest are shocking to see, but they're not the only cause of climate-change-enabling deforestation. A brush fire in the Atlantic Forest in 2017. Photo: Getty ...

The Amazon is on fire: Wildfires continued to burn at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The cause: Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires were set by cattle ranchers ...