Learn why the Amazon is critical for our planet and how WWF is working to protect its forests, rivers, and wildlife from growing threats.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

Microplastics silently threaten even untouched Amazon wilderness. The post Microplastics Invade the Amazon Rainforest, ...

A surge in Amazon Rainforest clearing has sparked outrage just as world leaders gather in Brazil for COP30, topped off by a scuffle as indigenous people broke into the buildings late last night.

Thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil on Saturday, urging COP30 negotiators to ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

A short boat ride from Cop30 lies the home of Seu Ladi, who tells Nick Ferris how deforestation and climate change has ...

In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven ...

Seven giant funeral urns dating to pre-Columbian times have been found deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. A fisher who works in this little-known waterlogged area of the middle Solimões region, ...

Brazil’s tropical forests are under pressure. Startup re.green won for the Earthshot Prize for its efforts to restore them.

With a spear in hand and red hair rising like fire, the mischievous forest guardian from Brazil's Indigenous folklore, ...