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 ...

Tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon Rainforest are being cut down so a new highway can be built in preparation for the November COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The BBC reports that ...

The Amazon isn't as pristine as you might think. Turns out, humans have been changing its landscape for thousands of years. This suggests that some of the Amazon we know today was largely ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

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.

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

“It is a cruel irony that a highway destroying the Amazon rainforest is being built for a climate summit meant to protect it,” the Executive Coordinator of YouthNet Global, Sohanur Rahman, said in a ...