Suriname became the first country in the Amazon region to be declared free of malaria, WHO announced this week.

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Brazil's Federal Prosecutor's Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the Amazon.

COP30, which will be held in Belém, Brazil, has been hit by revelations that a new road to service the conference is slicing ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

Rules across Amazon countries also restrict drilling for fossil fuels and other minerals in territories with high degrees of environmental protection. In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the ...

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.

Drought, fires, deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024 The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across eight countries and one territory, storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across eight countries and one territory, storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the planet. It has about 20% of the ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...