Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

This secluded mountain town near São Paulo offers stunning Victorian charm and railway history surrounded by Brazil's ...

Improving forest management: ‘Forest management’ participants – including timber producers in the Congo Basin, Interholco and CBG, and agroforestry organizations in the Peruvian Amazon, including ...

New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

Scientists are finding that some percentage of tropical forests may hold up under global warming—if they’re not cut ... Brazil, analyzed 20 years of data from Brazilian forest monitoring plots.

If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate ...

Recent data from the University of Maryland show the tropics lost 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) of primary ...

The largest-ever funding mechanism for forests, it aims to provide a long-term source of finance for countries that keep their tropical forests standing. A global effort led by the government of ...

Brazil, set to host the COP30 climate conference later this year, lost the largest area of tropical forest in 2024. The world lost a record amount of forest in 2024, driven by a catastrophic rise ...

The Largest Tropical Rainforest . The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river basin of South America. Over half of this forest lies in Brazil, which holds about one ...