The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Tropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss

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

A new study led by scientists from the University of California has revealed how protecting tropical forests can yield climate benefits that enhance carbon storage in nearby areas.

An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according to research and allegations included in a new report on Monday, blaming high gold prices and tacit government support.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 15% in March from a year earlier, preliminary government data showed on Friday, but even with that dip it was enough to drive the most destruction during the first quarter in at least six years.

When Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello travels to the Amazon jungle and tells villagers the reason for her visit, their first response is often laughter.

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