Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset scheme to support the conservation of the Amazon ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

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.

The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses.

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

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 ...