Brazil's presidential election could be a turning point for the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest. President Luiz Inácio ...

A pilot project in which Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon were given an unconditional basic income significantly ...

The study, conducted by US and Brazilian researchers, used 15 years of atmospheric carbon dioxide data from the Amazon basin.

Deep in Peru's Amazon rainforest, the Shanay-Timpishka River reaches temperatures approaching 200°F despite being more than ...

Brazil controls about 60% of the Amazon, and roughly 17% of the forest has already been cleared. Under Jair Bolsonaro, ...

NASA satellite imagery reveals massive Amazon rainforest fires as El Niño-driven drought fuels dangerous conditions across Brazil.

El Niño is fueling a dangerous cascade of wildfires across the tropics, with the Amazon rainforest now experiencing ...

A dangerous El Niño-driven wildfire cascade has reached the Amazon, and NASA scientists warn that the worst may still be ahead as hidden fires spread beneath the rainforest canopy.

Brazil's government announces that annual deforestation in the Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since 1988.

Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in wildfires in the Amazon rainforest have been set on purpose ...

Wildfires in the Amazon have consequences that go far beyond the destruction of vegetation, scientists say. A new study has ...

As Brazilians head to the polls to vote in a runoff election, Amazon deforestation is also on the ballot. New data from ...