A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there's a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence ...

How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find out. The Amazon rainforest creates 20% of the Earth's oxygen. It's home to ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

Global warming, with its long summers and increasing number of droughts, is introducing a new climate in the Amazon ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest ...

Deep within a biosphere in the Ecuadorian Amazon is a luxury sanctuary that offers a fully guided immersion into the ...

"Deforestation and climate change are likely the main drivers of this decline." The Amazon rainforest is biologically the richest region on Earth, hosting about 25% of global biodiversity. The study ...

HUMAITÁ, Brazil — Dorival Costa has no qualms about scorching the earth. The 70-year-old farmer in the Brazilian Amazon has just set fire to 5 acres of rainforest that he will convert into cattle ...

(Original Caption) The Japura river on the border between Brazil and Colombia, the river meanders through virgin forest and flows into the Solimoens, the Brazilian section of the Amazon. (Photo by ...