Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in a raid on Tuesday (June 2). They arrested about 30 people accused ...

Increased risk for logging workers and Indigenous peoples Survival International last year released photos showing dozens of Mashco Piro close to active logging zones. The group warns that contact ...

Clearcutting, logging, and burning in the Amazon may affect snowfall in the U.S., according to a report in the Journal of Climate. Researchers estimate that deforestation in the Amazon could reduce ...

Brazilian environmental agents this week shut down schemes involving hundreds of companies the agents said were covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, according to government documents ...