One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a combination ... in addition to deforestation, degradation can be just as harmful. In this scenario, President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva ...

However, the news was not entirely positive for conservation efforts: forest degradation skyrocketed by 497%, driven primarily by fires that scorched vast areas of drought-stricken rainforest.

3.7 million hectares of tropical primary rainforest vanished, almost the size of the Netherlands. Deforestation, driven ...

By Peter Speetjens As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the trees left standing, potentially changing the structure ...

Over the last forty years, 20 per cent of the Amazon basin has been cleared for a number of reasons, some of which are listed in the diagram below.

As the apocalyptic impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation stare humanity up-close in the face worldwide, so to speak, it has become increasingly clear that ...