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Members of a violent and isolated Amazon tribe shot two loggers dead with arrows in Peru, after several previous attacks and repeated warnings that a tree-cutting project had encroached on their ...

As deforestation and climate change threaten to transform the Amazon, there is growing concern that the ecosystem may be ...

According to the study, alerts indicating forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 44% from 2023 to 2024—a 163% increase compared to 2022. Last year alone, 25,023 square kilometers (km² ...

President Trump wants to undo protections that cover more than half of the Tongass National Forest to development, encouraging large-scale commercial logging of old growth trees.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing ...

Murder in the Amazon: A U.S.-Born Nun and Environmentalist is Gunned Down in Brazil For Opposing Rainforest Logging Story February 22, 2005 Watch Full Show Volume 90% ...

Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world's largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday.

Although extensive areas of tropical forest are selectively logged each year, the responses of bat communities to this form of disturbance have rarely been examined. Our objectives were to (1) compare ...