The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of ...

The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit ...

The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.

For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.A moratorium that has protected vital ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a ...

Did you know you can actually swim in the Amazon River? In Ecuador you can! In this video, Travel + Leisure guides you on an ...

Paul Rosolie, who has spent more than twenty years in the Amazon rainforest, recently opened up to Dragons' Den star Steve Bartlett about the deadly jungle encounter ...

The sights and sounds of the Amazon rainforest come alive in this soothing and relaxing video that makes you feel you are in the heart of the world’s most biodiverse rainforest. The team at the Amazon ...