A study has revealed that humanity's footprint in the Amazon rainforest is reshaping the forest in ways scientists didn't expect — altering its deep evolutionary history and disrupting how the ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most unique and colorful birds in the world. From bright parrots to powerful ...

Slowing deforestation in Brazil and pledges to ban oil drilling in Colombia offer slivers of hope for the Amazon.

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s oxygen. But that’s often a repeated, yet misleading claim. In fact, it’s a ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said Monday.

In Eunápolis, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, the clearing of Atlantic Forest for agriculture started centuries ...