The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

You don’t need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon’s most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire. As you ...

To help all those incredibly important people get to Belém, workers are carving an eight-mile slice out of the Amazon rainforest that will make way for a brand new four-lane highway, reports the BBC.

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The BBC’s article has pictures of the clear-cut forest floor where logs have ...

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 ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over ... forests in preparation for hosting more than 50,000 people this November, the BBC reported Wednesday.

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also an important regulator of weather ...