By Mongabay.com The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the ...

"Deforestation is often evaluated from the ... to the elimination or degradation of the original plant cover in the Amazon Rainforest and Cerrado biomes. "Illegal activities such as grilagem ...

As deforestation in the Amazon increases, so does the frequency and severity of storms forming in the Atlantic.

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left ...

paving this road will be so detrimental for the Amazon rainforest, which we all know is crucial -- both to Brazil and the world in general." Aside from the further deforestation, environmental ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said Monday.

And, while deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has slowed, it is still happening at a faster pace than the forest’s recovery rate. Stopping deforestation should still be the priority ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible ... report said the world’s largest rainforest has been ravaged by deforestation, extreme drought and catastrophic wildfires to such ...

“Deforestation is often evaluated from the ... the elimination or degradation of the original plant cover in the Amazon Rainforest and Cerrado biomes. “Illegal activities such as grilagem ...