As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

How to Save the Amazon, which explores deforestation and degradation in the world’s largest rain forest, was published in ...

In the southern Amazon forest, in a large Indigenous territory in the municipality of Juína, discontent was spreading among the Cinta Larga people.

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, pictured in 2020. ... Some 25,000 square miles of forest was destroyed in 2022 — an area twice the size of Belgium.

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.

Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet that ...

New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest ...

Key to halting forest loss, Vargas added, is support for Indigenous people, who are recognised as the best forest protectors and safeguard around 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. Kátia Silene ...

Such credentials have brought hope to clergymen and faithful in the Amazon region, a vast area with 48 million residents and 6.7 million square kilometers (2.6 million square miles) in South America.

A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered intense protests and exposed deep rifts among residents ...