The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

Davis Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the ...

Ancestral fishing knowledge is now obsolete after dams broke the river’s rhythm, scrambling ancient fishing spots.

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...

The Amazon rainforest stretches for millions of kilometers, hiding ancient tribes, animals and maybe something else. What if under this mysterious canopy lies an advanced civilization? How did we miss ...

As Belém's COP30 ended in compromise, political forces moved swiftly to accelerate destruction far from the global spotlight.

Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian ...

Researchers have developed a tool that reliably predicts where destructive new roads are likely to carve through tropical ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...