Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in a raid on Tuesday (June 2). They arrested about 30 people accused ...

Brazilian authorities have busted a logging ring that used fake permits to cut 500,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest, reports Reuters. 155 illegal loggers were involved in the ring, which used ...

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 ...

Clearcutting, logging, and burning in the Amazon may affect snowfall in the U.S., according to a report in the Journal of Climate. Researchers estimate that deforestation in the Amazon could reduce ...