Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this major accomplishment, experts ...

A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...
Mongabay News

Despite restrictions, forest loss continued on Ituna land, home to isolated people

Illegal invasions in the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Pará state, home to isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava ...
Gizmodo

Brazil Clears 8 Miles of Amazon Rainforest to Make Space for UN Climate Conference

This November, the United Nations will descend on the city of Belém, Brazil in an attempt to solve climate change. The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, will bring 50,000 people ...
Forbes

Brazil’s Bold Climate Finance Plan Could End Tropical Deforestation

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...
AOL

How drones and AI are protecting the Brazilian rainforest

Re.green is reforesting farmland in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. - re.green Brazil is home to some of the planet’s largest areas of tropical forest, but they are under intense pressure. The Atlantic ...
AOL

Away from Brazil’s ‘forest’ Cop30 – the fate of the Congo Rainforest hangs in the balance

When Brazil’s President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world’s largest rainforest ...