The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been ...

In Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — the largest in the world — hit a year-on-year record in September as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was preparing to face off against his ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has decreased by 46 percent compared to the previous year, government satellite data released on Wednesday showed.

Germany and Norway gave billions of dollars to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, created in 2008 to promote sustainable use of the rain forest, but those countries have frozen that support.

An ongoing drought in Brazil's Amazon rainforest likely also contributed to the deaths of the dolphins, researchers said.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

The destruction of the world’s rainforests ramped up last year, despite global pledges to end deforestation by 2030, according to a new report.

A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

Explore the Mata Atlantica that once covered Brazil's coast for over a thousand miles.

Residents of Brazil's Amazon are struggling to breathe as a wave of intense wildfires blankets the region in thick, toxic smoke. In recent days, fires have intensified across the rainforest ...