By the time Navarro was named head of the forest inspection service in 2012, he had traveled the Amazon for more than a decade, observing extensive illegal logging. A few rainforest dwellers resisted.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — New rules that allow sustainable logging of national forests in the threatened Amazon drew guarded praise from both environmentalists and loggers. President Luiz Inacio ...

Could sustainable logging in the Amazon help slow global warming? Researchers find that sustainably logged forests can recover within a 20- to 30-year cutting cycle.

Greg Asner is racing against time to map threatened rainforests around the world. His secret weapon: a sensor-packed plane ...

Brazil’s president Thursday approved a measure offering huge chunks of the Amazon jungle to timber companies that comply with tough restrictions aimed at preserving the world’s largest rain ...

Restoring Brazil’s rainforest has largely fallen to nonprofits. They're battling illegal land-grabbers, tight budgets, botanical mysteries – and the clock.

Logging road in the Amazon. Conventional satellite analysis largely fails to distinguish logged rainforest from pristine rainforest. New methods devised by scientists at the Carnegie Institution ...

By stashing solar-powered cell phones in jungle canopies and leveraging machine learning tech, physicist Topher White leads the fight against illegal logging in the Amazon.