Amazon rainforest

Satellites spot troubling signals that may portend a transformation from rainforest to savanna, with profound implications for the planet.

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners, loggers and ranchers are invading and occupying ever-larger amounts of Indigenous territory. Brazil’s original inhabitants are increasingly opposing these incursions, leading to conflicts and a surge in killings of local activists.

As a means to address climate change, it’s a complete cop-out.

"We thought that he would fulfill his campaign promises to defend the indigenous people of Bolivia and Mother Earth. But it’s clear that in terms of real-life actions, he didn’t fulfill them.”

Fifteen young Canadians are suing the federal government over climate change. It's not the first climate change litigation. Here are five other cases:

If the Amazon is burning right now, it is partly because of the Bolsonaro government, but it is also because there is a huge global appetite for certain agricultural products and certain minerals.

By using imaging scans to measure internal decay, researchers find forests may store far less carbon than we think.

Last Friday, in the streets outside the government buildings in Brazil’s capital city, Emilee Gilpin walked with nearly a thousand people in desperate concern over the relentless and unprecedented burning of one of the most important ecosystems in the world.

He may have spent the weekend an ocean away from home, rubbing elbows with world leaders during tense talks on international crises, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept cool, collected and decidedly out of the fray.

The federal government is spending $15 million and offering up the use of Canadian water bombers to help fight the wildfires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, August 26, 2019, as he wrapped up several days of meetings with G7 world leaders in France.

Some Canadian environment groups are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to put the brakes on attempts to seal a free trade agreement with Brazil until stronger policies to protect the Amazon rainforest are in place.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived on Friday, August 23, 2019, for this weekend's long-awaited G7 summit in France, where he plans to try to shore up Canada's trade and economic interests in one-on-one meetings with several world leaders before the official gathering gets underway.

The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.

Full-tilt chaos has descended on the Arctic, a region that’s now warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the other G7 leaders are wrapping up their two-day summit today in Biarritz, France, where the meetings have been largely upstaged by U.S. trade tensions and a surprise visit by Iran's top diplomat.