For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Parts of the Amazon are drifting into uncharted territory. According to a concerning new study published in Nature, the rainforest is approaching a climate state that scientists are calling ...

Preserving the Amazonian rainforest keeps communities safe from the health risks of wildfires and deforestation, research has found ...

The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he ...

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 ...