A new report by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute has found that gold mining poses a significant threat to ...

There is evidence that approximately 17% of the Amazon forests have been lost and an additional 17% are degraded. Continuing to lose this biome would affect the livelihoods of around 47 million people ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war. Santa ...

The Amazon, often called the "lungs of the planet," is the world's largest tropical forest, playing a crucial role in the global climate system due to its vast carbon storage. While it is typically ...

The Amazon River Basin is the largest drainage basin on the planet, covering an area almost the size of the contiguous United States as it sprawls across nine nations and many Indigenous territories.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Deforestation in the Amazon has been identified as the main driver of declining rainfall, responsible for nearly three-quarters of the drop in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Major soy traders like Cargill, ADM and Bunge announced their withdrawal from the Amazon soy moratorium, a move that could increase deforestation ...

This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil, when the road disappeared into what I thought was fog. When I got out of the car, ...