Brazil is home to some of the planet’s largest areas of tropical forest, but they are under intense pressure. The Atlantic Forest, on the country’s eastern coast, once covered 350 million acres, but ...

It's a viral claim with millions of views: Brazil allegedly chopped down trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a highway to the COP30 climate conference. As DW can show, the claim is misleading.

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...

One of southern California’s oldest giant sequoias holds more leaves than there are people in China. It has stood since there were fewer people on Earth than live in modern Japan—more than 3,000 years ...

Several days of rain are in the forecast as a storm that arrived in Los Angeles County raised the risk of flooding and possible mudslides in recent wildfire burn scar communities and soaked freeways.

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Around 23 million people across California are covered by flood notices Friday as Los Angeles braces for what could be a month's worth of rain in a day. Concerns about heavy rain in the area — which ...

Parts of Los Angeles County are under evacuation warnings as a complex storm system moves in. Some Moderate High By Amy Graff and Judson Jones Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team.

A groundbreaking Brazilian community demonstrates how to farm sustainably in the forest—no cattle necessary. This part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is being used for agroforestry, areas where farmers ...

Temperatures will begin to drop this week before the latest storm will pummel Southern California as neighborhoods with burn scars are warned to brace for possible flash flooding, meteorologists ...