Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

Brazil’s president vetoed Friday parts of a congressional bill that sought to overhaul the country’s environmental licensing ...

More and more loggers from urban areas are flocking to Ecuador to chop down trees and procure balsa wood for constructing ...

A global study finds tropical arthropods are vanishing fast. Climate-driven shifts, not deforestation, appear to be the main cause.

At the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, cabinets contain thousands of wood specimens, some of which ...

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The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats in 2025.

He Fought to Save the Amazon Rainforest. Then He Was Murdered — and Authorities Fear He Was Targeted for His Work "We condemn the murder of environmental defender Hipólito Quispe Huamán in ...

A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30. After plunging in 2023 and 2024, deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% ...

Environmental activist Hipólito Quispe Huamán was shot and killed Saturday night in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru, in what authorities suspect was a targeted attack linked to his ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.