Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

Deforestation is the removal of trees from an area of forest. Although humans have been cutting down trees and using forest resources for millennia, the massive deforestation that is happening now can ...

Hyury Potter is one of the leading environmental investigative journalists in Brazil. A freelance reporter, he recently won ...

However, knowledge about their potential for timber production is scarce, especially in the Central Amazon. We performed a silvicultural ... sustainable management to prevent secondary forest ...

Somebody get Greta on the horn! Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon ... deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit. Along the partially built road, lush ...

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest impacted vast areas of Latin ... while frequent references to human activities like coal burning and deforestation are a reminder that air quality, climate ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin ...

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Because the Upper Hoh Rain Forest Road is the only route to the rainforest’s trailheads, its closure could lead to canceled summer plans and disappointed tourists. The Hoh Rain Forest is known ...