MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 16 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 16 story has been corrected to reflect a record low for a major tributary, not the Amazon River itself, in the headline and paragraph 1) A major ...

Large areas of the Brazilian rainforest at risk of losing protection. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181114132017.htm ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and covers more than 2.5 million square miles of land. It stretches across nine South American countries: Brazil, Columbia, Peru ...

To find flecks of gold, workers devour the rainforest floor with water cannons. "There are a lot of accidents," says one. "The sides of the hole can fall away, can crush you." Ron Haviv / VII It ...

But the Act was revised in 2012 to include a paragraph that says this 80 percent requirement can be relaxed to 50 percent if a state protects more than 65 percent of its public land.

At the midpoint of an Irish Atlantic Rainforest, Eoghan Daltun’s urgent and beautiful description of his life on the Beara peninsula, the author takes stock. Daltun reflects on the power of home ...