Brazil pushed for concerted action to alleviate hunger Monday as it hosted a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies.

Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon.

For a different kind of vacation, a stay in the Amazon's only all-inclusive treehouse lodge will provide a unique experience ...

Santiago Yahuarcani's visual vocabulary is neither derivative nor dependent on Western art history. His paintings-including ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected an effort Friday to allow an Amazon data center to tap into additional power from a nearby Pennsylvania nuclear plant. The decision could ...

And as he has grown into a preschooler with quite staggering knowledge of Amazon rainforest animal species, I am acutely conscious that he sees virtually no real animals in his ordinary life ...

Medicinal cannabis users who test positive to drugs in random roadside tests will no longer automatically lose their drivers licence. Victoria's Legislative Council has passed an amendment that ...

dacnis, pays tribute to Project Dacnis, a conservation, research and education NGO that maintains private areas of the Atlantic Rainforest, including the one where the animal was found ...

Archeologists analyzing stretches of the Amazon using LIDAR have discovered a long-lost Portuguese colony in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Experts found geometric shapes—possibly denoting ...

AN ANCIENT city that was abandoned in the 18th century has finally been unearthed deep inside the Amazon rainforest. Located in the modern Brazilian state of Rondônia, the Portuguese settlement ...

Extensive cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or grow soy are driving deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. A number of meat packers signed commitments with prosecutors in ...

Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.