The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.

Tourists snapping selfies with sloths are fueling a booming black market that’s tearing these gentle animals from the Amazon ...

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.

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday put forward his vision for how the Amazon rainforest should be protected, a future that didn't depend on donations from ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Deep in Brazil's Amazon, scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for ...

Australia’s tropical forests are the world’s first to flip a worrisome switch. The forests are now putting more carbon into the atmosphere than they are taking out, researchers report in the Oct. 16 ...

In theory, stopping the deforestation of the Amazon is among the cheapest ways of curbing global warming. Brazil’s “Legal Amazon” region, which encompasses nine states and 60% of the entire forest ...

The Amazon should heal when the digging stops, yet many regions stripped of trees to clear a path for gold mining remain barren. The missing ingredient is not just nutrients, it is water that the land ...

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 ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...