A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently ...

The Amazon Rainforest is synonymous with a climate ... it's a sanctuary of biodiversity—but not without its dangers. The black caiman lurks silently in rivers, while the elusive jaguar prowls ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

Colombia's Amazon rainforest has long been a cause of deforestation concerns. On Monday (Apr 8), the nation's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad revealed that there exists a perplexing paradox in ...

Adventurer describes going where nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest. Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea. More than 62,000 sq km ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease ...