Brazil is encouraging bioplastics, ecotourism and fishing businesses in the rainforest to replace illegal logging and mining.

In Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

Moo Deng is a pygmy hippo, a species native to the forests of west Africa. Unlike their bigger and significantly scarier ...

The Amazônia Revelada project aims to identify sites in the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the traditional knowledge of forest peoples.

Explore the Issue Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest After Brazil ... including tens of thousands of plant species, several thousand animal species, and millions of insect species, at risk ...

That's five times larger than the forest fires of 2019 when, under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, rampant destruction of the Amazon made headlines worldwide. The estimate comes from the ...

For more than five decades as violent conflict raged through Colombia's highlands and rainforests, wildlife thrived.

The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus ... The drought has also sapped hydropower plants, Brazil's main source of electricity. Energy authorities have approved bringing ...

As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...