The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

The country's efforts to become a leader in the area are being undermined by armed groups operating in the country

Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before

Learn about the challenges faced by Indigenous communities in Leticia, Colombia, due to the Amazon River's low water levels and the efforts to provide assi...

The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until Friday, November 1, is focused on how countries will fulfil previous pledges to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water and restore 30% of degraded ecosystems…

The severe drought of the Amazon River has caused Indigenous communities who live beside it to struggle for food, water and simply getting from one place to another

Brazilian artist Mundano is presenting a massive street mural in Sao Paulo that uses ash from wildfires and mud from floods to highlight extreme weather events wreaking devastation in the country

The International Crisis Group is reporting that Colombia's government efforts to control deforestation in the Amazon are being hampered by the actions of left-wing dissidents who control the area

The government is auctioning off plots of pristine Indigenous reserves for fossil fuel projects, with campaigners warning of a ‘silent genocide’

The South American leaders are in the spotlight as they prepare to host this week’s Cop16 biodiversity summit, November’s G20 meeting and next year’s Cop30 climate summit

Following her epic 50-day trek through the Amazon rainforest in Guyana, explorer Lucy Shepherd speaks to Annabel Grossman about her most challenging moments in the wilderness and the need to protect these fragile ecosystems

World Wildlife Fund says species like pink river dolphins of the Amazon, forest elephants in Gabon are in sharp decline.