However in an interview with the BBC, the incoming vice-president Hamilton Mourao said the Amazon rainforest would be cared for and laws will be applied. "We've been protecting our rainforest.

Unforgiving Climate and Terrain The Amazon Rainforest is synonymous with a climate that's harsh and unforgiving. Temperatures ...

A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. The improvement ...

Joe Biden wandered into the Amazon rainforest after giving a speech warning of the dangers of climate change. Wearing an open-necked blue shirt, dark slacks and his trademark Aviator sunglasses ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, towers over the crowns of the forest. The tree shapes the myths of the ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.