The researchers credit the slowdown to policies implemented by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva to curb deforestation.

CNN — The Amazon rainforest is an ecological marvel. It's twice the size of India, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and it's the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world. It's home to ...

While tropical rainforests continue to shrink, that decline is slowing following a record high in 2024, the World Resources ...

Fracking entails extracting natural gas and petroleum from subterranean bedrock, and is criticized for using industrial quantities of water to break open rocks as well as causing ...

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President ...

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...

How long would it take for the world’s largest rainforest to burn down? If we don’t do anything to stop it, we’ll soon find ...