A major part of the funding is coming from the LEAF Coalition, which has raised more than $1 billion to sponsor projects like Amazon's. LEAF was co-founded by Amazon along with governments like Norway ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the “wealth of nations” to ...

The urbanization in São Paulo is also leading to big cats being susceptible to road accidents and deadly traps meant to catch ...

Earthsight claims fashion brands are buying leather for products like luxury bags that has links to illegal deforestation.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

At ESA's Living Planet Symposium, scientists have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA's Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on ...

Illegal cattle ranches clearing the Amazon rainforest are behind the leather in high-end handbags made by top European and ...

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

SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached 8,174 square kilometers (3,156 square miles).