Several states in Brazil are trying to rid themselves of rainforest protections, bowing to pressures from cattle ranchers and ...

One of the priority areas is along the BR-319 highway, where experts warn deforestation may increase fourfold under another ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed to preserve the ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the 'lungs of the Earth' because this vast biome produces about 6% of the Earth's oxygen. However, many people would be amazed to learn that it's not the ...

Trees and forests are often described as the lungs of the Earth because of their important role in removing pollutants such as carbon dioxide from the environment. New research from the University of ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about ...

The full footage of Biden's remarks shows him entering and exiting via the same path. Several other people followed the same ...

Preventing further deforestation in Brazil’s southern Amazon could slow the trend. If clear-cutting continues apace, farmers ...

From the ancestral Yanomami perspective, the trees are at the beginning of any understanding of the climate and that converges with scientific discoveries that “the great trees of the Amazon forest ...

There are many locations in Wisconsin to harvest a Christmas tree, and some of those places are in Wisconsin's public forests ...