'Highest wind ever observed by man'? A new reading challenges history.

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has ...

Dinosaur footprints found in the Amazon rainforest offer rare evidence of Jurassic-era species once roaming this tropical ...

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

Camera traps reveal that Amazonian animals use a walkway high up in the forest as a secret night-time highway.

Following a campaign by environmentalists for greater transparency into the origins of beef, the government of leftwing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — which has overseen a significant drop in ...

A Texas refinery that supplies green fuel to US airlines has been purchasing animal fat from cattle raised on illegally cleared lands in the Amazon rainforest, according to ...

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

Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United ...

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.

BELEM, Brazil, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Brazil insisted on hosting this year's COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem ...

Having studied the healing plants and peoples of tropical South America for well over four decades, I am often asked, “What ...