The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the U.S. State Department puts it, is often supported by the same industries that are escalating climate change.

Activists say it is impossible the Amazon’s 'blood gold' is not in Britain. It is likely sold in the bullion to the UK before finding its way around the necks and on the fingers of jewellery buyers

Leaders of Ecuadorean indigenous communities gathered in Quito on Thursday to demand the government comply with court orders to halt the use of hundreds of gas flares by oil producers in the country's Amazon.

The scientific community is unanimous that forests are our natural "air conditioners" on both a local and global scale, and that humanity's future depends on them. While the world struggles to meet the 1.5C climate change target, a report published Thursday shows that, thanks to unique biophysical processes, tropical forests…

The Amazon rainforest is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to a new pollution report — the opposite of what is supposed to happen.

Dust is a precious fertiliser for the Amazon rainforest and feeds Atlantic phytoplankton

Boys tell parents they found nothing to eat – surviving only on rainwater

The boys, Glaucon and Gleison, survived their ordeal in the Amazon by eating the berries of the Couma utilis flowering plant and by drinking water from a stream and rainwater

Now the boys are expected to make a full recovery