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 ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

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

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

Sebastião Salgado, a renowned photojournalist who died last week, spent decades capturing an Amazon that is fast disappearing ...

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 ...