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 ...

Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years last year, a jump driven in part by a sprawling effort ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest slowed over the last 12 months by nearly half compared to the previous year, according to new government data. The country lost 4300 sq ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Increased deforestation in Indonesia, coupled with El Nino, raises concerns about a potential repeat of the devastating 2015 ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.

A United Nations-backed framework for protecting tropical forests could allow governments to collect income from carbon ...

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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest ...