MARUAGA, Brazil — The 10-year-old took off running down a dirt road in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, turning cartwheels, playing tag and picking fistfuls of wild bougainvillea. Small fires ...

The Amazon basin is roughly 80% to 90% of the size of the continental U.S. and contains 2.8 million square miles of jungle, which is more than half of Earth's remaining tropical rainforests ...

President Biden walked into the jungle Sunday, becoming the first sitting commander-in-chief to set foot in the Amazon rainforest as he pledged to “fight for humanity” and looked to cement his ...

When four young indigenous children were found last week after 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle, their rescuers noticed that the oldest, 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, had something ...

The Amazon is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world and produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. As the fires in the rainforest continue to burn, our environment could be harmed.

The Amazon basin, almost the size of the continental United States, represents half of the world’s tropical rainforest and 12 percent of its total forest cover.

Jake Spring reports primarily on forests, climate diplomacy, carbon markets and climate science. Based in Brazil, his investigative reporting on destruction of the Amazon rainforest under ex ...

Tanguro Ranch, a 200,000-acre industrial farm in the remote Mato Grosso region of Brazil, may not be what you imagine as the Amazon, but it sits right up against massive walls of dense rainforest ...

The water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of ...

An Amazon rainforest rite of passage in ... found four children who survived a plane crash 40 days ago and had been the subject of an intense search in the Amazon jungle. June 10, 2023 “The ...