The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

Standing beside a stream stained dark with oil in Ecuador’s northern Amazon, an Indigenous woman shook her head in disbelief as she stared at the oily sheen drifting across the water and broken pipes ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

The adoption of management techniques that reduce the impact of timber harvesting can promote the recovery of tropical forests, such as the Amazon, and store carbon in the long term while maintaining ...

The journey loosely follows the Amazon’s flow and features Peschak’s photographs of the region’s biodiversity, novel wildlife behavior, and unique ecologies of rarely seen species. Take a look at some ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

A winding river cuts through dense rainforest in the Amazon region of Brazil. The valley stretches deep between ...

For the first time, the United Nations climate change negotiations are taking place at the edge of a tropical rainforest, a setting many are still waiting to see if it can inspire governments to take ...

Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch made a significant move in 2005. He purchased a vast tract of Amazon rainforest in Brazil. His intention was not exploitation but protection. By acquiring a ...