Claros warn that the world's largest rainforest is reaching a tipping point, beyond which it will largely disappear.

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

Deforestation has long been a challenge for Brazil – where decades of over-farming and logging operations have taken a toll and seriously threatened the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous ...

In Brazil, USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon. But, to understand the causes ... The greatest concentration of intact rainforest in Africa is found in the Congo basin, covering an ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause ... occur relatively frequently in the Amazon Basin. Between 1980 and 2017, 67 cold spells were identified there ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...