Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The carrots are largely linked to the private sector and are predicated on ...

New state-level legislation in Brazil, including the withdrawal of tax incentives for companies adhering to the ASM, is ...

Colombia's government said on Thursday that deforestation in the South American country increased as much as 43% in 2024 ...

Deforestation in Colombia surged last year, according to data from the country's environment ministry said on Thursday, as ...

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in ...

The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the ...

Deforestation, drought and fires battered Amazon rainforest in 2024 Fishermen push a boat in the Aleixo Lake amid a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2024.

Environmentalists warn that reconstructing BR‑319 without safeguards could increase deforestation rates fourfold. "We are ...

Under Bolsonaro, deforestation in the Amazon was at a 15-year high with over 5,000 square miles destroyed from August 2020 to July 2021.

Deforestation in Brazil's vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached 8,174 square kilometers (3,156 square miles).

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 ...