While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

Fisher Stevens, who produced the 'We Are Guardians' documentary about the Amazon rainforest destruction, says these stories ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

Investors managing $3 trillion worth of assets have signed the Belem Investor Statement on Rainforests to support an end to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new model pinpoints "tipping points" that the Amazon rainforest is approaching due to climate ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of ...

These investments are complicit in genocide,” said Jonas Mura, chief of the Gavião Real Indigenous Territory in Brazil.

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade ...

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 ...

Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.