A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

Avoiding products that drive deforestation is an easy step one ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

An unexpected region of the Amazon is at the forefront of rapid growth in climate extremes, a new report reveals. The central ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...