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 ...

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

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

A view of cut down trees at Cordillera Azul ... groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development. The amendment eliminates ...

FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National ... that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development.

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 ...

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

CBS host Gayle King and Amazon founder's fiance Lauren Sanchez will soon be aboard 'New Shepard' with the singer. Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen ...

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