Amazon deforestation

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
Environment

Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
Global Economy

Brazil fines meat packers $64 million for buying cattle from deforested Amazon land

An aerial view shows a deforested area during an operation to combat deforestation at the Cachoeira Seca indigenous reserve, in Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
World+Biz

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 57% in September

FILE PHOTO: Smoke from a fire rises into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto/File Photo
Global Economy

Switzerland, US donate $8 million to Brazil's fund to fight Amazon deforestation

FILE PHOTO: A view of a deforested area in the middle of the Amazon forest, near the BR-230 highway, known as Transamazonica, in the municipality of Uruara, Para, Brazil, July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo
World+Biz

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 66% in August

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kell/File Photo
World+Biz

Replanting the Amazon could slow climate change. It's harder than it sounds

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kell/File Photo
World+Biz

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls in first month under Lula

An agent of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) gets ready before going to an operation to combat of deforestation, in Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
World+Biz

First Brazil logging raids under Lula aim to curb Amazon deforestation

An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil July 28, 2021. Picture taken with a drone on July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
World+Biz

Brazilian Amazon deforestation up 150% in Bolsonaro's last month

The Amazon rainforest is home to one in 10 known species on Earth. Photo: Getty Images via BBC
World+Biz

If Brazil legalizes more Amazon mining, it would drive deforestation, study says

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia State, Brazil September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
World+Biz

Brazil authorities doing little to combat deforestation: Report 

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia State, Brazil September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
Africa

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon hits record for first half of 2022

Amazon rainforest
World+Biz

Brazil sets new six-month Amazon deforestation record