SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s banks will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit beginning on Wednesday in the South American country.

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

Carbon offset projects claiming to curb deforestation are significantly overestimating their impact, according to a new study published in Science on Thursday. Sold as a way to lessen the impact of ...

Primates already face “unprecedented challenges," researchers said, and climate change is likely to bring additional burdens, according to the study. The study by a group of more than 100 researchers ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 ...

By Marcela Ayres, Lisandra Paraguassu and Manuela Andreoni BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) - After struggling for years ...

COP30 is expected to hold talks on “ending deforestation” after developers carved a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to facilitate attendees. The massive United ...

By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - Beef production is the leading driver of agriculture-linked deforestation, ...

The Amazon Forest seen from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory, a scientific research facility in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometres ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. But while much ink has been spilled on the potential benefits of tree planting in the fight against climate change, less is known about how the ...

Last year’s United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, had the same optimistic energy as the first day of a new school year. The United States — a truant since the nation withdrew from ...