The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is considered key to the fight against climate change because of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide it absorbs. Risks to the forest drew ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss.

Mato Grosso is Brazil's top grains producer The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its ... and the encroachment of agriculture in the jungle. Satellite images for the 12 months ...

Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil Biden spoke after becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that ...

Fires in the Amazon rainforest, during the summer months, aren't new. But this year, it's the worst on record. While Brazil's government has called warnings about the fires "sensationalist" and ...

“It is a cruel irony that a highway destroying the Amazon rainforest is being built for a climate summit meant to protect it,” the Executive Coordinator of YouthNet Global, Sohanur Rahman, said in a ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... Image caption, The Tupi Guarani people live in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. There are many different Amazon groups in addition to the Tupi Guarani.

A team of researchers exploring the Amazon made a stunning discovery. They found a new species of giant anaconda in Ecuador’s dense rainforest ... a remote jungle rarely explored.