This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

The Amazon by day is a place of plants, water, and silence. The overwhelming grandeur of the tropical rain forest lies in its subtlety. There are no herds of ungulates as on the Serengeti Plain ...

"We are fighting to protect what we love." This woman made history defending her people's land: 'It's time that the world listened to us' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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.

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 ...

Forests flanking Brazil’s rivers act as “highways” that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.