Alexis Damancio Silva recalls the severe drought in Puerto Narino, Colombia, last year. The Amazon River nearly dried up, affecting wildlife and agriculture. Silva hopes for US support to fund ...

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 ...

However, INPE’s DETER alert system also recorded a sharp rise in forest degradation. Deforestation in 2024 versus 2023 in the Brazilian Amazon according to Imazon’s SAD system. Forest ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons ...

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.

In Alto Mayo, a forest in Peru, there's more than meets the eye. Conservation International's recent survey of Alto Mayo, which is part of the Amazon, exceeded expectations, with findings that change ...

FILE - A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP ...

Baby sloth poses for the camera on the tree. Image via depositphotos.com One of the world’s slowest animal species, the sloth, also resides in the Amazon rainforest. Everything about these animals are ...

Amazon's Advocates Fear Trump's Return Means Little US Help to Protect Rainforest BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far ...

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...