Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Large animals have become scarcer and smaller ones are now predominant, but there have been virtually no global extinctions in the Atlantic Forest according to studies based on the Atlantic Series, a ...

An Indonesian soldier gives a thumbs up as he crosses a rice field on a combine harvester in remote Papua, where a government ...

In 2006, the Brazilian government passed the Atlantic Forest Law, which banned most ... the study period amounted to 186,000 hectares of deforestation over 14 locations, both on private and ...

A multi-century climate record suggests that current Atlantic jet-stream variations are not the cause of an increase in extreme weather events. Read the paper: Past hydroclimate extremes in Europe ...

Brazil's environment minister Edson Duarte said in a statement that illegal logging was the main factor behind the increase in deforestation ... square kilometers of forest were cleared in the ...

For more than 100 years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) had been missing from the Atlantic Forest, a once vast biome now reduced to fragments due to deforestation and human ...

The Atlantic Forest is home to more than 700 species ... the greatest focus of potential extinction is the Arc of Deforestation. In a warmer and drier climate, the question is whether there ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest ... because of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide it absorbs. Risks to the forest drew global concern in August when fires raged through the Amazon ...

In an image that stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic, great clouds of gray ... hints at how technology can be used to stop further deforestation. Since the end of the last ice age our ...

Most are native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, including sloths, owls, anteaters, boas, toucans and even pumas. One toucan lost half of its upper beak during an attempted capture by traffickers.

Such challenges, and the opportunities to address them, are exemplified in Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes. These two tropical forests are of global ... These stakeholders wish to avoid the ...