While policymakers have gathered for the COP30 in Belém to discuss ways to combat the climate crisis, Brazil’s indigenous ...

How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their ...

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

Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

SAO PAULO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of ...

Flowing across the heart of South America, the Amazon River nourishes the planet’s largest rainforest and countless species ...

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 ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 16 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 16 story has been corrected to reflect a record low for a major tributary, not the Amazon River itself, in the headline and paragraph 1) A major tributary ...

The Amazon has always carried an air of mystery, with its winding waterways and dense rainforest stretching for miles. Travelers once saw it as unreachable, reserved only for explorers and scientists.

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands ...

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...