The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

The Amazon is being deliberately destroyed. Trees that have stood for hundreds of years ... Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the ...

This year, an extreme drought across South America has contributed to five million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon being ...

The Amazon region holds the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is home to plant and animal species that are still being discovered by scientists. Most of its millions of square ...

If somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of the forest were lost, models suggested, much of the Amazon would perish. About 18 percent of the rainforest ... are dying off and being pushed aside ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a ... that conservation areas are being invaded and destroyed, there are many people marking out areas that should be protected." ...

The environment ministry said that efforts by inspectors were important in bringing about the fall, President Lula had promised to restore the Amazon rainforest when he was trying to get elected ...