The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres ... Fire has engulfed an area two-thirds the size of the continental U.S., and containing the flames is proving to be a herculean task ...

Biden, the first sitting U.S. president to visit the world’s largest tropical rainforest, saw up close the ravages of ...

In that year, an area the size of Haiti - more than 27,000 sq km - was cleared from the rainforest. The Amazon region holds the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is home to plant and ...

An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according to satellite data. The rate of losses has accelerated as Brazil's new right ...

Brazil's environment ministry said it was the lowest recorded rate in the last five years, although the deforested area is still more than six times the size ... the Amazon rainforest when he ...