Initiative aims to improve the lives of more than 100,000 people living in the Amazon and reduce deforestation in an area ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest ...

At 93 years old, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire is urging Brazil to empower native peoples to preserve the Amazon ...

There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the canopy layer. A few trees grow ...

Indigenous leader Tomas Candia hopes the light rains that began this week over parts of Bolivia's Amazon rainforest will spread and help extinguish dozens of wildfires raging across the nature-rich ...

Jaguars in the Brazilian Amazon have surprised scientists with an unusual adaptation to annual flooding: They live in trees for months, hunting and raising families high above the rising waters. As ...

A recent study has confirmed that Amazon jaguars have developed a fascinating strategy to face seasonal river flooding: when the waters rise and flood the forests, these felines begin to live up in ...