The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

Hydropower is outdated and harmful—causing deforestation, reduced rainfall, energy loss, and water insecurity. Safer, more ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

The Tsiino Hiiwiida: unveiling multiple dimensions of plant and fungal biodiversity of the Upper Rio Negro project will accelerate the discovery of plants and fungi in one of the least explored ...

As you approach his Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state, large single-crop farms of soybean or maize give way to lush, verdant rainforest. This is the epicenter of a half-century ...

ExxonMobil plans a massive oil expansion in Guyana amid fears over an environmental disaster in the Amazon rainforest.

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square ... It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and the second-largest in the world after the Amazon. It stretches across six Central African countries ...

of secondary roads in the Congo Basin, 9.8 km (6 mi) in New Guinea, and a striking 49.1 km (30.5 mi) in the Brazilian Amazon. The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...