There is evidence that approximately 17% of the Amazon forests have been lost and an additional 17% are degraded. Continuing to lose this biome would affect the livelihoods of around 47 million people ...

SHARM El-SHEIKH, Egypt. - WWF’s Living Amazon Report, published today, argues that threats to the integrity of the Amazon must be stopped through urgent measures to protect 80% of the rainforest by ...

Recent drops in Brazil's deforestation have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Forest loss in the Amazon fell by 23.5% in 2025 compared with the previous year. This drop contributed to a 21% ...

July 11 (UPI) --Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest levels in more than a decade, officials said this week. Satellite surveys show a 37% decrease in the number of ...

Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon have fallen to their lowest level in 13 years, according to new satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), continuing a ...

In June 2026, Brazil’s real-time deforestation detection system recorded a 35 percent drop in deforestation alerts in the Amazon compared to the same month last year. In that month alone, 1,233 alerts ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in a decade in the first half of the year, according to official figures released Friday. Leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ...

A recent report from Brazil’s national space agency showed that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the lowest it’s been in a decade. The news made headlines and was lauded as an example of the ...

Cows roam an area recently deforested in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre state, Brazil, on Dec. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- After four years of rising ...

Forest destruction fell to 2,874sq km, an area slightly larger than Luxembourg, in the 12 months through July. That’s the lowest level in the current Deter series, which started in 2015. Deter is a ...

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