The Cinta Larga people were sitting on a wealth of diamonds. They didn’t turn to mining until they saw devastation all around them.

According to a new report, organized criminal gangs have expanded their presence in over a third of municipalities in Brazil's rainforest region.

The murder rate in Brazil's Amazon is far higher than the national average, largely because of territorial conflict in a region prey to organized crime, an NGO said Wednesday.

As the ice caps disappear, these creeks and rivers become more irregular, leading to longer and more intense droughts in the ...

The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence ...

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We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going ...

One of the main reasons is that there isn’t much demand for an Amazon river crossing. The depths of the rainforests are ...

Fast-growing and small-seeded tree species are dominating Brazilian forests in regions with high levels of deforestation and ...

Tens of thousands of fires swept through the Brazilian Amazon during the forest fire season, with the blazes destroying an ...

Mongabay examined four REDD+ projects in Pará state and found that all were developed in partnership with sawmill owners with ...