The Amazon is accelerating towards a point of no return
During COP27, held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published the Living Amazon Report...
Satellite images show an illegal road threatens the Amazon
Satellite images presented that an illegal road through the Brazilian Amazon's protected land is about to connect...
Over 80 fashion brands linked to Amazon deforestation
While many people have heard of Amazon rain forest land being cleared for grazing cows doomed to become...
Can the Amazon rainforest survive?
Humans are barreling toward a catastrophic tipping point for the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent...
Indigenous communities are crucial in protecting the Amazon
It is impossible to protect the Amazon rainforest without involving Indigenous communities, according to environmental...
The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs
A recent study in Nature shows that the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs. For...
Devastating gold rush in Peruvian Amazon rainforest as seen from space
The Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot....
Facebook Marketplace fuels illegal sales of land in the Amazon rainforest
Large parcels of land in the Amazon rainforest are being sold illegally on Facebook. According to a recent investigation...
Amazon deforestation reaches a 12-year record
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has risen to a 12-year high in 2020, according to data released by...
Climate crisis could turn the Amazon rainforest to savanna
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Amazon rainforest could shift from...
Proposed UK law pushes accountability for Amazon products
People around the world have watched with increasing horror as Amazon forest destruction has accelerated in recent...
Organic vegan restaurant named to raise awareness for deforestation in Brazil
Recently opened in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and designed by local architecture and design practice VAGA,...
The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) recently published its International Statistic of the Decade, and the “winner”...
Amazon rainforest might reach irreversible tipping point as early as 2021
Relentless Amazon deforestation and gross mishandling of the region by Brazilian authorities and agricultural advocates...
8,000 barrels of oil spill in the Peruvian Amazon
Approximately 8,000 barrels of crude oil have spilled into the Amazon, and the Peru State oil company Petroperu...
