A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

Global warming, with its long summers and increasing number of droughts, is introducing a new climate in the Amazon ...

A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a 'hypertropical' state as droughts become ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. After five ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest ...

Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden ...

Nenquimo, co-founder of Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines, is a Waorani leader who has won the Goldman Environmental Prize ...

Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. As the world gathers at ...

Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...