Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts ...

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say ...

Step into the untamed heart of the Amazon Rainforest, where nature thrives in its most raw, powerful, and breathtaking form.

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these ...

The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in ...

Peru just created a new 700,000-acre conservation area to protect the Amazon rainforest and support Indigenous communities.

The Amazon River dolphin, or Boto or Pink Dolphin, is a distinctive creature in Brazil’s rainforest with a history spanning 50 million years. However, it faces endangerment due to overfishing, ...