A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density ...

Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest has long been a source of environmental degradation and human health risks. Now, ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by excessive levels of CO2 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

Spend a week with Ruby, an MSci Environmental Geoscience student and UCL Earth Sciences Digital Student Ambassador as she works on her final project analysing garnets from a volcano in southern Spain.

BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand ...

Listen to Story Ficus insipda trees can monitor atmospheric mercury emissions Trees offer a cost-effective biomonitoring method for mercury Research supports UN Minamata Convention on Mercury goals ...

An Indigenous person carries a scale during a march at the annual Free Earth camp where Brazil’s Indigenous communities discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30, which will take ...