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

The illegal activity of gold mining was a thriving business deep within the forest canopies and infiltrated nature, leaving ...

“The pied tamarin has a very small range that sits in the eye of the storm of the Amazon.” The recently decreed Pied Tamarin Wildlife Refuge joins five other forested areas, including a military ...

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

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

Damage and pollution from the mining industry risks further destruction of the Amazon rain forest, which plays a critical role in protecting against climate change. Many of Earth’s remaining ...

SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon. Never before had he seen one of the striking creatures ...

Eight miles of protected Amazon rainforest are being decimated to build a road for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, in November this year. The new four-lane highway aims to ease traffic to ...

There is a long and unfortunate tradition of Western documentary-makers patronisingly portraying the Amazon rainforest and other equally far-flung locations as pre-industrial paradises ...