The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...

It's a viral claim with millions of views: Brazil allegedly chopped down trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a highway to the COP30 climate conference. As DW can show, the claim is misleading.

Brazil is home to some of the planet’s largest areas of tropical forest, but they are under intense pressure. The Atlantic Forest, on the country’s eastern coast, once covered 350 million acres, but ...

While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning to hand over a large area of the Amazon ...

When Brazil’s President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world’s largest rainforest ...

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing as carbon dioxide levels have risen, meaning these larger trees play a more important role in determining whether the ...

Life in the Amazon region following total deforestation of its rainforest sounds pretty bleak: dry spells punctuated by bouts of extreme rain; strong winds that stunt any forest regrowth; and rising ...

Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising culprit: ordinary thunderstorms. These quick, fierce storms, powered by ...

The Upper Hoh Rain Forest road is finally set to open again. That means that Washington’s iconic temperate rainforest, one of the most-visited parts of Olympic National Park, will reopen on Thursday, ...

SEATTLE – Just in time for the summer tourist season, the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park will reopen Thursday. Repairs on the Upper Hoh Road, the only road to access the forest, are now ...

Just in time for the tourist season, the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park will reopen Thursday. Repairs on the Upper Hoh Road, the only road to access the forest, are now complete, Jefferson ...