While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

These investments are complicit in genocide,” said Jonas Mura, chief of the Gavião Real Indigenous Territory in Brazil.

The Oregon festival's sustainability program has helped plant hundreds of trees and protect thousands of acres of rainforest. Get the details.

Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

Scientists warn surge in fires signals growing ecological fragility as blazes overtake deforestation as main emissions driver ...

Big-name banks have been accused of providing $2bn of direct financing for oil and gas extraction projects within the Amazon ...

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the ...

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...

New study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them ...