This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil ... ever deeper into the rainforest. “The Amazon offers far more land than ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N ... Satellite data show that Indigenous territories in the Amazon — a region twice the ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

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

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

And this will be the first COP in three years not held in an autocratic petro-state. Brazil is a democracy with many vibrant ...

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

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% of Peru's territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one of the ...