Co-directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, the documentary introduces us to several competing concerns: ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system ...

New study highlights Amazon’s critical role in the Earth’s climate system, revealing that land-use changes and accelerating deforestation reduce biogenic trace gas emissions and impact atmospheric ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

Fourteen-year-old Alisha Wald may live in a desert state. But the recent graduate from the Mandela International Magnet School in Santa Fe has seen the creep of deforestation in the rainforest ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

Banks in Latin America are under increasing pressure to develop financial policies that support the transition to a greener ...

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...