Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil's ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and spread of this toxin.

The sovereign-backed investment fund for forests could generate far more money for conservation than traditional donor models ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...