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The Brazilian government has released some disturbing news: despite years of progress combatting deforestation, 2015 saw a 16 percent increase in the number of trees destroyed...

The Amazonas State, which lies in western Brazil, is the nation's largest by area, and is almost completely covered by the Amazon Rainforest. Brazil reports an 84 percent reduction in Amazon deforestation, but this image...

Photo via Shutterstock Brazil has presented encouraging figures that suggest the government is finding some measure of success in efforts to drastically reduce rates of deforestation in the Amazon by 2020...