The Amazon Rainforest is facing accelerating threats from deforestation, illegal mining, and climate change jeopardizing one ...

Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between ...

The sights and sounds of the Amazon rainforest come alive in this video that makes you feel you are in the heart of Amazonia.

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and ...

We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assassinated by ranchers in December 1988. She ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

A scraping sound reverberated from the hull as our tiny wooden boat once again juddered to a halt, sending us lurching forward. One of our two-man Indigenous crew jumped from the stern into the ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

The world's largest rain forest houses an abundance of wildlife. March 11, 2009 — -- It's home to the world's most vast variety of living creatures with the most birds, freshwater fish and ...