President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79, aspires to make Brazil a leader in the fight against global warming, but has fiercely defended oil ...

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

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

A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

S tudents in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law spent a week of their winter break in ...

Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon lies a river so hot it can boil anything that falls into it. This natural wonder, ...

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 ...

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

Through our landscape-focused initiatives, we are working with partners and members to activate these levers of change and ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar ... change due to extensive deforestation, according to NASA ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Deforestation is visible near the areas of several wood pellet production companies in Pohuwato, Gorontalo ...