As the planet heats up and climate warnings grow more urgent, scientists are studying ideas that once sounded like science ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers serve as highways and entire communities sit days away from the nearest ...

A Brazilian court is set to rule on the controversial Volta Grande gold mine project in the Amazon, operated by Canadian ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in eight years during the most recent monitoring period, according to new data from the Brazilian Human and Environment Amazon Institute, ...

Researchers found microplastics in every frog tadpole sampled in the Amazon rainforest. Learn what this means for ...

When President Joe Biden worked to burnish his climate legacy in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, the unspoken presence of Donald Trump shadowed the historic stop. A sitting American president had ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

The Amazon rainforest has been plundered for decades for rubber, timber and gold. Now, seeking a new treasure, illegal prospectors are setting their sights on the critical minerals coveted by much of ...

Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this major accomplishment, experts ...

President Joe Biden is visiting the Amazon rainforest today, becoming the first U.S. president to do so. It’s part of a wider South American trip that began with Biden meeting with leaders of the Asia ...