Microplastics silently threaten even untouched Amazon wilderness. The post Microplastics Invade the Amazon Rainforest, ...

In 2024, Mongabay investigative reporter Fernanda Wenzel traveled to one of the most dangerous spots in the Brazilian Amazon ...

The Amazon forest is losing its role as a carbon sink. Satellites reveal what this means for climate action worldwide.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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.

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the city of Belem, aims to highlight ...

Brazil’s tropical forests are under pressure. Startup re.green won for the Earthshot Prize for its efforts to restore them.

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits ...

Anticipation is rising that the agricultural method, involving nurturing a forest to grow crops there, can help the ...

Peru’s government has established the Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area in the Loreto region of the Amazon Rainforest. This new protected area holds 53% of Peru’s carbon stock, which ...