The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

Loma Santa, a newly established Indigenous protected area spanning an area the size of the Hawaiian island of Maui, sits at ...

The forest known as the Monsoon Forest is a Tropical Deciduous Forest. Learn why trees shed leaves seasonally and why this is ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.

Efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change have focused largely on the protection of tropical forests like the Amazon ...

Even Swedish consumption contributes to the loss of rainforest—and nowadays coffee has overtaken beef as the product ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Social media users concerned about climate change are claiming that amid COP30 in Belém, Brazil's Ministry of the Environment ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

The Brazilian academic believes that the tipping point he has warned of for decades is ‘much closer’ — but he retains his optimism about the next generation ...