The Amazon rainforest rarely burned before humans arrived. A 10,000-year record reveals how human-set fires transformed the ...

New research is dismantling the longstanding myth of the "pristine" Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

Fresh evidence has emerged that challenges the perception of the Amazon as an untouched wilderness prior to modern times. A study that has reconstructed 10,000 years of fire history using 1,361 ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has led to years of environmental crisis. After four decades of research, a scientist returns ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a ...