The Brazilian government has cleared protected Amazon rainforest to build a highway for the COP30 climate summit.

Brazil's Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) reported at least 276 territorial invasions related to illegal resource extraction in 2023

President Biden made a historic trip to the Amazon on Sunday to reiterate the urgency on climate change but it was his odd exit that got social media users talking.

The world's biggest jungle, spanning nine countries, is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its ability to absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In a vast swath of Colombia's part of the Amazon, each tree felled is approved by the so-called Central General Staff (EMC), as the renegade group calls itself.

Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.

It was supposed to be a good-news story out of the damaged Amazon rainforest: a project that replanted hundreds of thousands of trees in an illegally deforested nature reserve in Brazil.

This berry has been lauded as a way to bring "green development," but experts say it is also threatening biodiversity.

After years of demands for a referendum, the country's highest court authorized the vote in May to decide the fate of "block 43," which contributes 12% of the 466,000 barrels of oil per day produced by Ecuador.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has gathered leaders and high-level officials from South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia for a two-day summit on charting shared strategies to protect the world's tropical forests.

Lula and leaders of other countries with territory in the sprawling Amazon are set to meet next week in the Brazilian city of Belem on developing policies to protect the rainforest, which is being badly damaged by deforestation.

The news about the drop in deforestation comes ahead of the Amazon Summit, which will take place in Belém from Aug. 8 to 9.

John Kerry claimed that the U.S. was still debating how much money to contribute to the Amazon Fund.

In the coming days, armed police and environmental protection agents will launch the first of a series of operations.

Brazil's environmental agency started logging raids on Thursday as President Lula da Silva continues to fulfil his promise of stronger environmental regulation for the Amazon.

A new proposed law on Friday suggests the removal of protections from isolated indigenous tribes in Peru's part of the Amazon rainforest.

After President-elect Lula da Silva took office, cases of deforestation and illegal mining have increased in the Amazon rainforest over the past month, with many sounding the alarm on the encroachment of these companies.

The EU passed a new law forcing companies to not buy crops imported from areas with heavy deforestation, though activists say that this isn't enough due to its lack of protection for "other wooded areas" like the Cerrado savanna.

Brazil's President-elect Lula da Silva is meeting with the soy industry to potentially stop the deforestation of the Cerrado.

Many international leaders have expressed hope for Brazil's climate credibility to return full-force thanks to President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's new policies outlining how he will be tackling climate change.

At the UN COP27 talks in Egypt on Wednesday, Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised sweeping reforms and policies related to the Amazon rainforest and the country's environment goals as a whole.

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attends the COP27 talks in Egypt on Tuesday as he continues his recommitment to environmental policies that help mitigate the effects of climate change.