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

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Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas ...

They fear Donald Trump's second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump's Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he'll cut U.S.

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.

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” is a sprawling expanse of biodiversity. Beyond its towering trees and verdant foliage, it hosts an incredible variety of wildlife, ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons ...

If this rate of deforestation continues, the Amazon will reach its tipping point and will no longer be able to sustain itself as a rainforest and the world's largest carbon sink. The effects would be ...

Amazon's Advocates Fear Trump's Return Means Little US Help to Protect Rainforest BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far ...