With just five months until COP30 in Belém, Amazon deforestation has surged 92% year-on-year—960 km² lost by May 2025—undermining Brazil’s green leadership as wildfires and drought ravage its forests.

The Amazon Rainforest, the world’s largest tropical forest, stretches across seven million square kilometers in nine countries, with Brazil and Peru holding the largest territories. This immense ecoregion, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays a vital role in carbon regulation and climate balance but faces grave threats due to deforestation and […]

On Monday, the Institute of Man and the Environment in the Amazon (IMAZON) published a study showing that illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was reduced to 196 square kilometers in January and February. RELATED: Wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon Put Yanomami Families at Risk This figure represents a drop of 63 percent of the […]