This 780-mile-long watery artery, which forms the northeast border between Bolivia and Brazil, is home to thousands of ...

According to a NASA satellite study, an average of 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust settled over the Amazon Basin each year ...

Human activity, like deforestation, is turning the Amazon rainforest from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter. The Amazon ...

Deforestation in the Cerrado, the wooded savanna next to the Amazon rainforest, fell 24% to 5,516 sq km, also the lowest ...

The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of carbon in its vegetation. In 2023, the region experienced unusually high ...

The re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to lead to continued rainforest protections. His opponent ...

When American naturalist and conservationist Paul Rosolie first travelled to the Peruvian Amazon at 18, he was drawn to one ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left with scrub," conservationists have warned. WWF's biennial Living Planet report ...

Heading into the first round of voting on Sunday, the front-runners are Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is seeking ...

Brazil's presidential election could be a turning point for the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest. President Luiz Inácio ...

Organization adds 10 million protected acres in just eight monthsWARRENTON, Va., Oct. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rainforest Trust has surpassed 70 million acres protected worldwide, an area roughly ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Large ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest and coral reefs could collapse faster than scientists had previously assumed, according to a study published on Tuesday. Researchers ...