For years, gold mining has been one of Peru’s most pressing environmental challenges, with illegal operations clearing the ...

Avoiding products that drive deforestation is an easy step one ...

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...

The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ...

Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is ...

Climate skeptics are targeting new research on the Amazon to downplay global warming's impact on rainforests as Brazil ...

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade ...

An annual progress report shows that agriculture and wildfires continue to decimate forests despite a global promise to stop ...

A majority of Brazilians believe President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should ban oil exploration off the coast of the Amazon ...

Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in October and the number of blazes is up 25% in the first 10 months of 2020, compared to a year ago, data from government space research agency Inpe showed ...

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will ...