Brazil is using forensic science to tackle illegal gold mining in the Amazon, a top threat to the rainforest, Indigenous ...

Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 ...

A new analysis from the monitoring group MapBiomas finds that 7.7 million acres burned last year, down from a record high of ...

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

From January to June, trees were felled across 1,295 square kilometres (500 square miles) -- an area almost twice the size of ...

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia's president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.

FILE - A river borders an area that has been illegally deforested by land-grabbers and cattle farmers in an extractive reserve in Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, July 11, 2023. AGUA CLARA, Brazil ...

When President Joe Biden worked to burnish his climate legacy in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, the unspoken presence of Donald Trump shadowed the historic stop. A sitting American president had ...

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous ...

Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a report ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

The Ashaninka Indigenous people, who reclaimed their territory on the Brazil-Peru border decades ago, now face threats from gangs and drug traffickers. These criminals are using the Amazon's rivers an ...