A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

This represented a 79% increase in areas burned compared to2023. The Amazon rainforest bore the brunt, accounting for 58% of ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...

You don’t need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon’s most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire. As you ...

Bolivia has dismantled a bold land grab by Nithyananda’s self-proclaimed Hindu nation, ‘Kailasa’, arresting 20 of its ...

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...

An ongoing Brazilian government operation launched in February has removed between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal head of cattle ...