The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most ...

FILE - The Trans-Amazon Highway crosses a deforested area near Humaita Amazonas state, Brazil, July 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s environmental goals suffered ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. The Amazon was approaching a ...

In Colombia, Vélez noted, some 43 oil blocks and 286 mining requests had currently not yet broken ground in various parts of ...

Joe Biden will become the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest during a brief stop Sunday in the Brazilian city of Manaus, coming as the U.S. is expected to scale back its ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump ...

Loma Santa, a newly established Indigenous protected area spanning an area the size of the Hawaiian island of Maui, sits at ...