New research underscores the importance of community-based Amazon rainforest conservation and highlights the role of local ...

The vast tropical forest nations of Brazil and Indonesia are both home to millions of people, including Indigenous ...

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

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

Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese ...

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

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

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes.

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

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 ...