Let’s be honest, travel is getting expensive. Between rising ticket prices due to foreign exchange and the effort it now ...

A recent study scrutinizes 13 major import sectors based on their CO₂ emissions, their impact on deforestation, their use of child labor and producers' standard of living.

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A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A controversial amendment to Peru's forestry law is sparking outrage, as it eliminates the need for state authorization before converting forest land, potentially accelerating Amazon deforestation.

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

The world’s largest snake has recently been discovered in the Amazon rainforest. This new species of northern green anaconda ...

Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Small-scale—and usually illegal—mining ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...