Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Impending loss of the Amazon rainforest due to deforestation has concerned scientists, activists, and citizens all over the globe. Natural habitats sustaining the region’s incomparable biodiversity ...

The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon jungle for a new highway. The city of Belém, more ...

emerging from the murky depths with maps of regions from which no explorers had ever returned alive. But despite travelling all over the world, it was the Amazon rainforest, which he dubbed ‘the ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said on Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.

Most of us have heard of the Amazon Rainforest and with good reason. It is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is important for the role it plays in absorbing carbon dioxide and ...