Illegal gold mining is spreading rapidly across Peru’s Amazon rainforest, causing severe environmental damage, deforestation, ...

Rice, maize, and cassava crops cumulatively account for approximately 11% of total global deforestation—exceeding that of ...

New research reveals which food crops are razing the rainforest. One comes out way ahead — and it’s an American favorite.

In the late 20th century, Costa Rica — a Central American nation a little smaller than West Virginia — had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. The country was losing more than 100,000 ...

An investigation reveals that Sierra Leone officials facilitated the illegal building of luxury homes in a key national park.

Indigenous tribes in the Amazon possess advanced knowledge of their environment, which remains largely unexplored by outsiders. These tribes view modern machinery and deforestation as existential ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

Rice University biologist Amy Dunham has spent decades studying the mountainous rainforests of Madagascar's Ranomafana ...

Deforestation has reduced rainfall over the Amazon, suggesting the rainforest could reach a catastrophic tipping point sooner than expected. Satellite observations and rain gauge measurements show ...

SAO PAULO — For nearly 20 years, Brazil's largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world's biggest — wasn't grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as the ...