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

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

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a ...

The sovereign-backed investment fund for forests could generate far more money for conservation than traditional donor models ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged ...

Satellite images revealed that during the ... illegal mining destroyed 4,219 hectares of Amazon rainforest — equivalent to about 5,900 football fields — in areas demarcated as protected ...

Illegal gold mining remains rampant in the Amazon rainforest despite government efforts to curb it, reveals new analyses of satellite data from 2023 ...

The Canadian-built device called MOPITT – which stands for Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere – was launched in 1999 ...

An ongoing Brazilian government operation launched in February has removed between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal head of cattle ...

From Maui to the Pantanal, disaster recovery needs more than aids, it needs travelers too. Since the return of visitors can ...