Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Authorities from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname conducted a first-ever joint operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Supported by Interpol and other organizations, the ...

Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

Look down at the rainforest floor. Rotting flowers shift under the assault of tiny petal-eating beetles. Vividly colored fungi pop up everywhere like the strange sculptures of a madly productive ...

The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.

In the first 10 months of 2025, international tourism grew by 40% in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Most of those tourists were Europeans traveling to see the world’s largest tropical rain forest. But ...

Rare, high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has been revealed. Conservationist Paul Rosolie shared the ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods ...

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender. The rare case, which is due ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...