The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforest on Earth. The majority of the rainforest is in Brazil, but its lush, emerald green canopy also reaches into Peru and Colombia.

Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the “wealth of nations” to ...

Eight University of Birmingham students are set to travel to the Amazon rainforest to tackle climate change and ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

An archaeologist excavates one of the ceramic urns at the site of Lago do Cochila in Fonte Boa, Brazil. LAGO DO CHOCILA, ...

Hundreds of monkeys can now safely cross roads in Alta Floresta, a city in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Seven canopy ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Both US supermajors have snapped up acreage in the emerging, environmentally sensitive Brazil play as they continue building ...

Up to 70% of the Amazon rainforest could be lost if current trends in deforestation, warming, and land degradation continue, ...