Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers serve as highways and entire communities sit days away from the nearest ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in eight years during the most recent monitoring period, according to new data from the Brazilian Human and Environment Amazon Institute, ...

Amazon rainforest activist Paul Rosolie claimed he was blocked from using the word "Amazon" in Google Ads while discussing his conservation efforts because Bezos' company has dibs on the word ...

Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

Researchers found microplastics in every frog tadpole sampled in the Amazon rainforest. Learn what this means for ...

The Amazon rainforest has been plundered for decades for rubber, timber and gold. Now, seeking a new treasure, illegal ...

The Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Amazon (Idesam) has launched an international challenge ...

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador lies the "Amazon Chernobyl", a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster brought on ...

The Amazonian rainforest isthe planet’s respiratory system–the more than 1 billion acres of trees help regulate the climate and produce more than 20% of the Earth’s oxygen. And that’s why one of the ...

A kayak tour trailing through a sea of trees in the rainforest can only be experienced once a year. Photography by Cristian Dimitrius This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK).