The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings ...

Indigenous representatives from all nine Amazon Basin countries, gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima this week, pressed ...

Who really protects Brazil's ecosystems? It's not governments or big corporations — it's the communities living in and with ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

By Marcelo V. Guimarães, Marketing Director, Maximo Wood Marcelo V. Guimarães, Marketing Director at Maximo Wood, envisions a ...

Loggers were killed last year after entering Mashco Piro territory in Peru's Amazon, with Indigenous leaders warning that ...

Initiative looks to correct issues that have affected an area of the voluntary carbon market that has previously come in for criticism ...

Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure.

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a ...

The Amazon faces deforestation threats. Bioeconomy offers a sustainable way to protect forests and empower communities.