The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

The collapse of a major system of ocean currents, the meltdown of major ice sheets or the dieback of the Amazon rainforest are all examples of negative climate tipping points. These are the big risks associated with a changing climate, where harmful change becomes self-propelling. Each could cause environmental disasters…

In Belém, motels known for sex chairs and mirrored ceilings are stripping risqué features for climate negotiators

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape

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

Brazil’s soybean moratorium, credited with curbing Amazon deforestation since 2006, faces an uncertain future after the country’s competition regulator ordered its suspension while probing potential cartel-like behavior among traders

Members of Peru’s Mashco Piro tribe are believed to be under severe stress

The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution to review and eventually end the state’s imports of crude oil from the Amazon rainforest

Salvador Mitidieri ferries students across the Amazon River in Brazil to a primary school in Santa Rosa

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