Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in October and the number of blazes is up 25% in the first 10 months of 2020, compared to a year ago, data from government space research agency Inpe ...

Santiago Manuin, tireless defender of the Amazon rainforest, succumbs to COVID-19 "We're part of this natural world, and so we must defend it," he said.

The Amazon rainforest can become a distant memory because it's at the brink of a tipping point that could transform it for ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is ...

Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to about 10% of the world’s known species. This huge Tropical ...

Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest.

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The Amazon is home to approximately 90% of the world’s jaguar population and play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance of the Amazon rainforest by regulating prey populations.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.