The Amazon Rainforest, covering approximately 6.7 million sq km, is the largest rainforest on Earth. The rainforest is spread across nine countries – Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, Peru ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon — Earth’s largest rainforest — is on a continued downward trajectory, according to data released today by Brazil’s national space research institute ...

Throughout the Amazon, gold mining accounts for nearly 10% of deforestation ... small-scale mining destroyed more than 367 square miles (950 square km)) of rainforest in this territory — an area more ...

Preliminary data shows more than 5,000 sq km ... Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva said the falling rate was a "reflection" of Ibama's ongoing work in the rainforest. The Amazon is a ...

The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon has dropped to its lowest in six years, space agency data suggests. In July of this year, 500 sq km (193 sq miles) of rainforest were cleared in Brazil ...

The BR-319 is famed as one of South America's most challenging drives, but those who attempt it are rewarded with an unfiltered experience of the Amazon that few get to see.

Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were destroyed, an area larger than the U.S. state of Delaware, data from Brazil's space research agency Inpe showed.

On Thursday, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announced that between August 2023 and July 2024, 6,288 square kilometers of forest were destroyed in the Amazon – 30.6% less than the ...

Brazilian space research center INPE said on Wednesday that carbon emissions in the Amazon forest soared in 2019 and 2020 ... INPE data showed 500 square km (123,000 acres) of rainforest were ...