A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

When I was in college, a sustainability professor had us read a paper proposing an alternative to tradition farming practices. It was really rather simple: don't clear the land, just collect the ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

Scientists working on Will Smith's new show found a record-breaking anaconda species in the Amazon rainforest. The discovery, led by Professor Bryan F ...

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...

Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil Biden spoke after becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that ...