Destruction of the world’s largest rainforest in 2020 rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier according to government data.

As COVID-19 decimates jobs in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro's slum residents find new sustenance from the land

Environmentalists in Brazil are denouncing an acceleration of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest that they say is directly linked to the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus fears lead to increased logging in Brazil's Amazon and disease puts indigenous people's health at risk.