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From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

A number of long-standing Ramsay Street residents will also be back on the "revitalised" version of the Australian show.

Rain Forest Trust (Photo Credit) The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued a new Living Amazon Report, 2022 at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The eye-opening report defines a horror story of human destruction of the world’s largest rainforest. There’s no other way to look at it. Commercialization of the Amazon Rainforest is rampant in a

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued a new Living Amazon Report, 2022 at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The eye-opening report defines a horror story of

Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our workPresident-Elect Needs to Restore the Rule of Law; Reduce Deforestation Share this via Facebook Share this via Twitter Share this via WhatsApp Share this via Email Other ways to share Share this via LinkedIn Share this via Reddit Share this via

Brazil’s President-Elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, should commit to concrete measures to back up his promises on the environment as government representatives gather for the COP27 climate summit meeting in Egypt.

Plot out all the Indigenous territories in the Amazonian region of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, and you’ll get an idea of just how important conserving these lands is for the rainforest — and thus for the future of the planet. Now map out all the active oil fields in these four countries, and it’s […]

Across the entire 847 million hectares of Amazonian territory, some 26% of its forests are showing evidence of deforestation and degradation — 20% have suffered irreversible loss and 6% are highly degraded. The tipping point for the Amazon is no longer a distant scenario, but a present reality in some parts of the region. Of […]

(Pressenza)—The ecosystems of the world that support life, like Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, have an incompatible relationship with far-right governments, like the United States under Trump, who took a baseball bat to the Environmental Protection Agency.

More attention is needed on the value of forests in managing water resources to shield against the worst impacts of climate change