The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet’s longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features “flying rivers:” invisible streams of vapour that travel through the atmosphere, fuelling rainfall both within the forest and far beyond its boundaries.

Brazil’s labor court has ordered Volkswagen to pay about $30 million for collective moral damages

Many tropical glaciers in the Andes are expected to disappear in the next few decades. Their meltwater sustains millions of people, feeding crops in the dry season, supplying Peru’s capital Lima and other big cities, and even boosting the Amazon river. As glaciers vanish, floods and droughts are becoming more…

Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest

Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction

Bolivia heads into an Oct. 19 runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and right-wing ex-president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga after nearly 20 years of socialist rule

The remote Amazon island of Santa Rosa is at the center of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon are urging South American presidents to turn promises into action at a summit in Bogota

Cop30, the UN climate summit scheduled to take place this November in the Brazilian city of Belém, is embroiled in a controversy that has nothing to do with solving the planet’s environmental problems. Currently occupying debate about the conference is what Brazil’s press is calling the “hosting crisis”.