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

Colombia lost forest cover in the fragile Amazon part of the country in 2024 which was much higher than in 2023 which had the ...

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

Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has decreased by 46 percent compared to the previous year, government satellite data released on Wednesday showed. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest ...

In the past 12 months, the Amazon rainforest lost 4,300 square kilometers (1,700 square miles), an area roughly the size of Rhode Island. That's a nearly 46% decrease compared to the previous period.

“The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.