Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has hit a six-year high, the national space agency, Inpe, reports. Some 3,988 square kilometres (1,540 square miles) of land were cleared in the ...

Multinational grain traders operating in Brazil will vote next week on changes that could weaken an agreement to not buy ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

If somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of the forest were lost, models suggested, much of the Amazon would perish. About 18 percent of the rainforest is now gone, and the evidence increasingly ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

President Lula promised to restore the Amazon rainforest and chase down climate criminals during his speech at climate summit COP27 in 2022. Rainforest destruction had surged to a 12-year high ...

The Amazon, which is about the size of Australia, stores huge amounts of the world's carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that ...

Since then Brazil’s now $700m+ diamond industry has moved into the territory, completely changing the indigenous peoples’ way ...

As a child, I dreamed of visiting the Amazon rainforest, but I always envisioned it being wildly inaccessible. Traveling, especially internationally, is expensive. Looking at lodging alone ...

It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an ...

Biden’s emphasis on climate change during his trip creates yet another contrast with Trump as the president prepares to leave ...