The Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, is a treasure trove of biodiversity, home to millions of species, many still undiscovered. From the vibrant morpho butterflies to ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world, is home to a remarkable range of unique and colorful wildlife, including extraordinary amphibians like the vibrant red-eyed ...

On World Rainforest Day, Mongabay spotlights two major investigations in the Amazon revealing deadly drug trafficking in Peru and illegal cattle ranching in Brazil that’s fueling violence ...

The Amazon rainforest. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler. On this World Rainforest Day—launched in 2017 to highlight the critical role of these ecosystems—the message is urgent.

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at slowing deforestation.

This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment.

This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment.

This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment.

The Leonardo DiCaprio, Fisher Stevens-produced doc 'We Are Guardians,' about efforts to save the Brazilian Rainforest, has been acquired by Area23a.