The Amazon rainforest is estimated to have 390 billion individual trees and innumerable species of plants and animals. Canopy ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

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

and French Guiana – this 350-million-hectare forest is home to roughly 10% of known species on Earth. Scroll through our interactive rainforest experience and explore 50 species of the Amazon.

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make ... Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, ...

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

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

Forest floor The forest floor is very dark and ... Image caption, The Tupi Guarani people live in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. There are many different Amazon groups in addition to the Tupi ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is considered key to the fight against climate change because of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide it absorbs. Risks to the forest drew ...

criminals are exploiting rainforest to clear land Brazil's Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before. Historically low water ...