Rare images of members of the world’s largest uncontacted tribe show them emerging from the Peruvian Amazon – only miles from where companies are controversially logging pristine rainforest. The ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Never before had so much lumber been denied entry at a U.S. port on evidence that it was harvested illegally. Homeland Security investigators in Houston, acting on intelligence from ...

PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

Timber Investigators: Operation Jurupari and illegal logging in the Amazon After two years of investigations, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested some of the most important politicians and ...

New research published in Environmental Research Letters from the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO) concludes that despite the implementation of improved logging practices, forests in the ...

Authorities in Brazil have announced a new strategy to reduce illegal logging and timber trafficking in the Amazon, but the plan is likely to face serious obstacles given the magnitude and complexity ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has issued a response to a study that found selective logging in the Amazon is highly destructive. The research, conducted by scientists ...

Drones have seen a lot of bad press and idiotic hype that has slowed their acceptance by regulators and the public. But let's not forget that they perform valuable services like search and rescue and ...

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