In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to ...

British journalist Dom Phillips had been working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region ...

The Amazon Rainforest has earned the title "The Lungs of the Earth" for a vital reason: it produces a staggering 20% of the world's oxygen. This expansive forest stretches across several South ...

Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the wildlife species we know about – and probably a lot that we don’t know yet. It is the ...

Somebody get Greta on the horn! Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 ...

“It’s kind of a cliché that the cure for cancer might be in the Amazon, but it’s also kind of true,” Esquivel-Muelbert told National Geographic. As Rainforest Trust highlights on its ...

As the news of fires raging in the Amazon spread across the world last week, so did a misleading yet oft-repeated claim about the rainforest’s importance: that it produces 20 percent of the ...

And that’s significant: Historically, forests remove more than 30 percent of all the carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere; as late as the 1990s, the Amazon rainforest was still removing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Area23a has acquired We Are Guardians, an urgent documentary on Indigenous defenders of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil produced by Fisher Stevens’ Highly Flammable, and Leonardo ...

Jane Fonda has always been one to stand up for what she believes in. With a lifetime of activism under her belt, the ...

ARARI, Brazil - Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run for dozens of miles. Record-breaking Brazilian surfer ...

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Leo do the same?