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, ...

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

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

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

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

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that ...

The study found that Amazon forests, like other endangered biomes, are exhibiting signs of resilience decline with more ...

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

A new scientific study has provided compelling evidence supporting a long-held belief among Indigenous communities: the destruction of the Amazon rainforest directly impacts human health. Published in ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...