We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

The government of Brazil have taken steps to remove the rights of rainforest people. The current president, Jair Bolsonaro wants to use the land for farming and mining. The country of New Zealand ...

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo (AP) — For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered ...

It’s entirely possible for rainforests to look good in satellite images even though logging, mining or road-building mean they have become poor homes to species able to thrive only in the ...

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

Maintaining forest cover without considering its quality means ignoring major human sources of damage, such as logging, roadbuilding and mining, which make rainforests increasingly degraded.