A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

At each moment of each day, the Amazon breathes, dances, and sings with an endless variety of plants and animals, many of ...

The Tsiino Hiiwiida: unveiling multiple dimensions of plant and fungal biodiversity of the Upper Rio Negro project will accelerate the discovery of plants and fungi in one of the least explored ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

the Brazilian Forest Service wants to speed up the creation of timber forest concessions in the Amazon region. The first one in the state of Amazonas was signed in 2023. Image courtesy of Imaflora.

But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, extreme droughts, and fires, leading to massive deforestation—even changing the biome itself, from ...

The president says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it.