For centuries, the Amazon has remained in the collective imagination of people as an exotic region and an inexhaustible stream of resources that must be conquered and exploited. Today, these six ...

An area the size of Israel was deforested in the Amazon biome last year as destruction surged 21% in the region spanning nine countries that is home to the world's largest rainforest, according to the ...

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of millions of years.

JPMorgan Chase clients looking to invest or conduct activities in the Amazon biome will now be subject to enhanced due diligence reviews, according to the bank’s most recent sustainability report ...

The Brazilian academic believes that the tipping point he has warned of for decades is ‘much closer’ — but he retains his ...

By Alexandre de Santi In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...

The temperature rise in the Pantanal and Amazon biomes is among the highest in the country over the past 40 years, according to data released by MapBiomas this Wednesday (Nov. 5). The two regions ...

WWF urges the adoption of an Amazon-wide regional approach that integrates conservation and sustainable development across the countries of the region in order to maintain the ecological functions of ...

Catholic groups and bishops in the Amazon have teamed with actors, academics and indigenous communities to call for attention, as well as action, to the growing threats to life in the region, as they ...

The Amazon rainforest generates half its own rainfall, but deforestation threatens to disrupt this cycle, shifting large parts of this ancient forest to dry, savanna habitat. Passing such a “tipping ...

Destruction surged 21% in the region spanning nine countries that is home to the world's largest rainforest, according to Amazon Conservation organization BRASILIA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - An area the size ...