Official data show Amazon deforestation rose by almost 30% in the 12 months through July, to its worst level in 11 years. Pará state alone accounted for 40% of the loss, with a heat map of incidents ...

Illegal logging is the first step in a vicious cycle that is resulting in the disappearance of the rainforest, Moira Birss, a campaign director for the California-based nonprofit Amazon Watch, said.

Balsa wood is prized by turbine blade makers for being both strong and lightweight. But environmentalists say its harvesting is problematic. Wind turbines — the towering giants of the clean ...

“In the Amazon Basin, around 20 per cent of the total forest area is used for timber production," writes lead author Dr. Camille Piponiot, a junior scientist at the University of French Guiana.

In 2009, he used LiDAR to map carbon stocks in more than 4.3 million hectares of Peruvian Amazon at a cost of just eight US cents per hectare. He did the same with 14 million hectares of Colombia ...

Dozens of Brazilian corporations are calling for a crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, expressing their concerns in a letter Tuesday, July 7, 2020, to the vice president, who ...

Selective logging to extract valuable timber is often the first step in deforestation, with the remaining forest then burned to clear land for agriculture. ($1 = 5.7052 reais) ...

Selective forest cutting in the Amazon is on the rise, according to data released on Friday by the Brazilian government. Monthly deforestation alert data published by Brazil’s national space ...

Amazon Business Health Amazon’s warehouses have more costly workplace injury claims than meatpacking or logging, Washington state says Oct. 21, 2020 at 6:01 am Updated Oct. 22, 2020 at 1:16 am ...

Quadruple Homicide in Peruvian Amazon Puts Criminal Logging in Spotlight Peru's president announces investigation into murder of a community leader who foretold his own killing by criminal loggers.