Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in a raid on Tuesday (June 2). They arrested about 30 people accused ...

Brazilian authorities have busted a logging ring that used fake permits to cut 500,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest, reports Reuters. 155 illegal loggers were involved in the ring, which used ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...

Brazilian environmental agents this week shut down schemes involving hundreds of companies the agents said were covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, according to government documents ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s ongoing military-led operation to curb illegal deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest will end April 30, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said at the World ...

Clearcutting, logging, and burning in the Amazon may affect snowfall in the U.S., according to a report in the Journal of Climate. Researchers estimate that deforestation in the Amazon could reduce ...