Researchers examined 52 field studies from 2000 to 2025 that reported plastic contamination in the Amazon Basin's rivers, ...

The Prince of Wales has criticised criminals involved in the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, during a speech in Rio ...

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings ...

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a ...

This impact is being felt directly by the indigenous groups who have been living there for thousands of years, but also the world as a whole. In this episode we’re joined by Graihagh Jackson, from the ...

Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and ...

Indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon rainforest absorb far more climate changing gases than they emit, in stark contrast to ...

A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the ...

A special edition of this series on COP30 describes the threats facing the Amazon rainforest. We see the potential of ...

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Brazil, which is hosting the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the city of Belem, aims to highlight ...

The Discovery That Changed Climate Science The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the ...