Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

When Xing Yanling posted on WeChat about her visit to the Brazilian Amazon in April, she described to her friends in China the unforgettable sensation of being “enveloped by tens of thousands of ...

The Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit was designed partly with ecosystems like the Amazon in mind. Keep warming under that mark – the thinking went – and the forest had enough stability to weather ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply ...

The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating ...

NASA has released a pair of sweeping new panoramas from its two active Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, offering a ...

Geoengineering could protect the Amazon rainforest from climate change, new research shows. Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) aims to artificially cool Earth by increasing the reflection of ...

The Amazon Mining Watch (AMW) platform, created through a collaboration between the Pulitzer Center, Earth Genome, and Amazon Conservation to monitor mining activities in the Amazon basin, has ...

Imagine ascending 100 feet into the crown of an old-growth tree in the Amazon’s primary rainforest, pausing for a quiet toast in a canopy perch that feels worlds away from everything. Or gliding ...

The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil and neighboring South American countries is one of the largest and most remote ecosystems on Earth. In recent years, travelers and explorers have ventured deep into the ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host the ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...