Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3% in the 12 months through July, government data showed Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made progress on a pledge to rein in ...

BULUKUMBA REGENCY, Indonesia — By midmorning, beams of tropical sun cut through the rainforest canopy, illuminating a bamboo hut in a rare clearing of trees. Inside, a wrinkled old man, sitting ...

Brazil's government on Monday unveiled how it plans to meet a pledge to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, using strengthened law enforcement against environmental crimes and other ...

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and ...

Scientists have today announced the discovery of a species of lipstick vine completely new to science, from the depths of the Philippine rainforest. The team of botanists made the discovery during ...

Lipstick vines typically grow as vines on other plants and trees, and have brightly coloured flowers that are pollinated by birds. From the genus Aeschynanthus, they comprise around 180 tropical ...

Two new scientific review articles by international teams of researchers paint a bleak picture of the state of the Amazon rainforest: The critical ecosystem is being damaged at an unprecedented ...

For protecting the rainforest, this Brazilian activist wins Goldman prize : Goats and Soda Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap Munduruku was one of this year's recipients of the Goldman ...

10/02/2022 October 2, 2022. With Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro hoping to win another term, DW looks at how the Amazon rainforest fared during the four years he was at the helm.

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires ...

This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world's largest rainforest. A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up.