"Unprecedented." Researchers discover 'unsung heroes' protecting Amazon rainforest: 'The guards also cut off access' first ...

Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

New research reveals "unprecedented" conservation results of community-based management of protected areas in the Amazon—as many face a future in which they may become increasingly degraded due to low ...

The Andean Community has ordered Peru to take immediate action against illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking. The ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the ...

Astonishing new photos from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest give a glimpse of a prosperous, never-before-seen indigenous community living near the Bolivian border, according to a report. The images, ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a ...

The Ecuadorian government is moving to criminalise dozens of those who fight to defend the Amazon forest from deforestation, ...

A recent study has confirmed that Amazon jaguars have developed a fascinating strategy to face seasonal river flooding: when the waters rise and flood the forests, these felines begin to live up in ...

Who knew that the truck delivering your Amazon package was fueled with oil from the Amazon rainforest? A new report by NBC News, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations ...