The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

Global grains traders abandoned the Amazon Soy ​Moratorium after local lawmakers in Brazil's largest agricultural state Mato ...

Nearly 20 years ago, a Brazilian lobbying group for soy trading and processing companies signed onto a historic conservation ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest against deforestation.

Experts say that there are almost 200 uncontacted groups which exist around the world, with a large chunk based in the Amazon ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year. The ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

The world's largest rain forest houses an abundance of wildlife. March 11, 2009 — -- It's home to the world's most vast variety of living creatures with the most birds, freshwater fish and ...

The first signs of the river were the volcanoes, armored with ice. I saw them from the plane as I was flying down from Quito, ...