The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Madame Web is spawning memes already

Renowned for its stunning biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest region is also home to a vast array of people and cultures.

By now, the rivers should be full. But large-scale cattle farming, the climate crisis and weather events like El Niño mean Brazil is near the point of no return

According to data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, an American company is among the key beef suppliers and distributors contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest

Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking time bomb for the emergence or resurgence of diseases with pandemic potential. This is because environmental degradation and altered landscapes are important factors in this process, which are exacerbated during periods of extreme drought, such as…

The historic drought in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle and put at risk the livelihoods of remote Indigenous and riverside communities

New research reveals the far-reaching impact of tree-felling on land temperatures, highlighting the urgency for forest conservation.

Research highlights benefits forests bring surrounding regions in terms of cooler air and more rainfall

Severe drought in the Brazilian Amazon has caused the Negro River to reach historic lows, revealing millennia-old carvings previously hidden under water