By Fernanda Wenzel In 2021,an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

Fires are traditionally used for deforestation and for managing pastures, and those man-made blazes were largely responsible for igniting the wildfires. For a second year, the Amazon River fell to ...

In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also faces threats from deforestation, wildfires and illegal gold mining, Charvet said. Illegal fires to clear forest result in waves of ash ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research. "Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear ...