In The Spirit of the Rainforest, Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza weaves indigenous wisdom with scientific discovery in an ...

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

The Amazon rainforest is a sprawling, vibrant ecosystem teeming with extraordinary creatures like jaguars, poisonous dart ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

British journalist Dom Phillips had been working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region ...

It pales in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north, the green lungs of the Earth. Even some scientists who study the Cerrado call it ugly; the common term for its scrubland is ...

The Amazon rainforest appears able to endure decades of intense drought, yet doing so would mean losing many of its tallest, most carbon-laden trees and releasing vast amounts of stored carbon into ...

Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study. Dieback would see large numbers of trees die, shifting the lush ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...