Brazil topped the world last year in forest fires, accounting for 42% of the global loss of primary tropical forests. The ...

Macaúba palm, also known as macaw palm, grows all over the Americas. Now, a drive by the Brazilian government to incentivize ...

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world's tropical forests, lost 6.9 million acres, the most of any country.

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world’s tropical forests, lost 2.8 million hectares (6.9 million acres), the ...

Loss of tree cover in 2024 -- from deforestation and fires, deliberate or accidental -- generated more than three billion ...

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples ...

Brazil saw a 32.4% decline in deforestation, with five out of six biomes experiencing reductions, MapBiomas -a network of ...

In 2024, over 89 percent of the deforested area in the country was in the Amazon or the cerrado. Savannah formations (cerrado ...

For the second year in a row, the Cerrado was the most deforested biome, accounting for 52.5% of all vegetation loss in the ...

It was the second year in a row of lower deforestation, with 2023 also recording a decrease of 11 percent from the previous ...

Researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo emphasize the importance of implementing emission reduction practices ...

Deforestation slowed across all of Brazil’s major ecosystems in 2024 for the first time in six years, according to a report ...