BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.

Forest fires have consumed tens of millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and illegal burning of forests and pastures.

By Timothy J. Killeen Rural-to-urban migration is a worldwide phenomenon and the Amazon is no exception. Nonetheless, a very large proportion of its immigrants are small farmers who originally ...

Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low 18 September 2024 Mark Poynting, Climate and environment researcher & Vanessa Buschschlüter, Online Latin America editor BBC News ...

Over $64 million in assets were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. AP Raids and arrests took ...

Photojournalist Thomas Peschak overcomes challenges to bring the Amazon River system to life in pictures to protect it. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Negro River drains about 10 per cent of the Amazon basin and is the world's sixth-largest by water volume. Manaus, the biggest city in the rainforest, is where the Negro joins the Amazon River.

The crackdown, coordinated by the United Arab Emirates, has struck a major blow to transnational environmental crime networks, officials said.

In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years – which scientists at the World Weather Attribution group found had been made many times more likely by climate ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.

In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years – which scientists at the World Weather Attribution group found had been made many times more likely by climate ...