Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a ...

AN OIL TANKER SAT DOCKED at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond this week — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it’s ...

The Amazon Rainforest teems with exotic, diverse wildlife, from energetic monkeys to colorful macaws to predatory jaguars.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...

New research led by IIASA reveals a surprising link between two major climate-tipping elements: the Southern Amazon ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

The work of Everett Senior shook up the world of linguistics and aroused a fair amount of controversy. He used the Pirahã ...

By paying a premium for wild rubber, Veja hopes to incentivise producers to keep the forest standing. But money alone doesn’t ...

The Detroit Zoological Society’s Amazon program equips students with supplies and knowledge—linking conservation and ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...