Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth.

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, ...

Predating the Amazon, Australia's Daintree Rainforest is a 135-million-year-old marvel. Discover the ancient biodiversity ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Global demand for critical minerals, used to build drones and electric cars, is surging, setting of a new wave of criminality ...

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

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

Drug traffickers, illegal miners and criminal syndicates are rapidly expanding across the Amazon, pushing the rainforest closer to ecological collapse.

The number of deforested kilometers in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2025 and March 2026 fell by 36 percent compared to ...

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, ...

This woodland LEGO set lets animal lovers build a fox, owl, or squirrel and honestly, the tiny squirrel is stealing the show.