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

So all living organisms contain carbon-14, and when they die, it starts decaying. Only half of it remains after 5,730 years.

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

Speaking on her porch by the Negro River, Borges said her company, Yara Amazonas, started a partnership with loggers to extract oils and seeds from the forest, instead of cutting trees down. "The ...

Satellite imagery shows that the loss of tropical forests over the past year has doubled compared to 2023, with half of it ...

Sebastiao Salgado, who has died aged 81, was an award-winning Brazilian photographer and social documentarian whose work took him to 130 countries and landscapes from the Amazon to Antarctica. Labour, ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser ...

Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado, who died Friday, spent five decades chronicling the best and worst of planet ...

The Esecaflor project, a collaboration between Brazilian and British scientists, simulates drought in the Amazon rainforest to understand its impacts. This long-running experiment reveals significant ...