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

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

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

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 ...

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

Over 1.3 million acres of some of the tallest and most valuable trees in the Amazon rainforest have been recognized as a protected area by the Brazilian state of Pará.

is enjoying leisure by doing “sidequests” like visiting the Amazon rainforest. The former president visited Brazil to sign an International Conservation Day proclamation to contribute efforts ...

Outgoing US President Joe Biden's video, in which he seems to be wandering off into the Amazon forest, has gone viral on social media. Outgoing US President Joe Biden's video, in which he seems to ...

The massive Amazon region, which is about the size of Australia, stores huge amounts of the world ... But development is rapidly depleting the world's largest tropical rainforest, and rivers are ...

Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution ...

The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres ... Fire has engulfed an area two-thirds the size of the continental U.S., and containing the flames is proving to be a herculean task ...