Article continues below this ad The Amazon rain forest is arguably the biggest natural defense against global warming, acting as a giant absorber of carbon dioxide.

Such credentials have brought hope to clergymen and faithful in the Amazon region, a vast area with 48 million residents and 6.7 million square kilometers (2.6 million square miles) in South America.

As representatives from nearly 200 countries gather for the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, environmental activists living in the Amazon region hope the conference's proposals will ...

World ‘Leo will follow Francis.’ Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest May 9, 2025 at 9:10 pm By MAURICIO SAVARESE ...

In April 2012, Survival International launched a global campaign to save the Awá, an uncontacted indigenous people that has been called “Earth’s most threatened tribe.” Two years later, the ...