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Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government announced Wednesday that it will invest $75 million in the BR-319 highway…

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If deforestation and global warming continue unchecked, the Amazon rainforest could begin a gradual transition to a degraded,…

Gold mining presumed to be illegal caused 6,000 hectares (more than 14,800 acres) of deforestation in Amazonian…

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A new study looks at genetic evidence to suggest that Colombia’s Magdalena River, and not the Andean…

The United Kingdom’s cocoa imports drove more than 2,000 hectares of deforestation in 2025 alone, mainly in…

As the planet edges closer to irreversible damage, wild animals around the world are staging their own secret…

Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu,…

A new-to-science frog species has been identified, but experts say it should be classified as endangered. What’s happening?…

Vast areas of the Amazon rainforest have been burned for cattle ranching MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images Deforestation…

He began studying the Amazon in the 1970s; 50 years later, Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways