The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

An archaeologist has supported claims that the Amazon ... the rainforest was planted there by an ancient advanced civilization - that is sensationalistic and misleading. It's that the tropical ...

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 ...

With this fair treatment philosophy being a tent-pole of his success in the US, Henry Ford set his sights on a dramatically ambitious project in the Amazon jungle that combined his business ...

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 ...

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

Many of these rainforests are household names, from the Amazon to the Congo to ... Our last tracts of undisturbed tropical rainforest have to be protected. But it also shows us that ending ...

The Amazon isn't as pristine as you might think. Turns out, humans have been changing its landscape for thousands of years. This suggests that some of the Amazon we know today was largely ...

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 ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests still intact, according to Krogh. The new report “reinforces that Brazil ...

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 ...