The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism.

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most fascinating and mystical places on earth hiding many rare species, including snakes.

An ambitious project about to get underway intends to see how the trees will respond to the CO2 levels of the future ...

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan - Brazil’s government has ...

There's no denying that the Amazon rainforest is the most dense and humid wilderness where life thrives at every layer of the ...

By Adriano Machado, Lais Morais and Ricardo Brito ITAITUBA, Brazil, May 29 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of gold is ...

Deep inside Brazil's Amazon rainforest, a new gold rush is unfolding. Illegal gold miners are pushing deeper into protected Indigenous territories, destroying rivers, contaminating water with mercury, ...

"I think we can confidently say that the more deforestation happens, the lower this global warming threshold becomes." ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

Threatened plant species could be conserved by planting them "inter situ" - in wild environments outside their current ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits ...