Did you know the Amazon rainforest covers nearly 2.6 million square miles across eight countries? It’s one of the most ...

The Amazônia Revelada project aims to identify sites in the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the traditional knowledge of forest peoples.

Torroledo, a Terre Haute photographer, has ventured by plane, bus, motorbike, taxi, canoe and mules into some of the most ...

Here too, in the extreme southeast of Amazonia, cattle ranchers are setting fire to the vegetation. The fires, recklessly set ...

The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the number of fires ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left ...

Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions, putting some of the continent's most important ecosystems -- such as the Amazon rainforest and the Gran ...

Satellite data analysed by Brazil’s space research agency INPE has spotted 346,112 fire hotspots so far this year in all 13 countries of South America, surpassing the previous record of 345,322 ...

We need your help to protect the Amazon. South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the ...

(Photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus/anouchka). South America is a nature lover's paradise! It's home to many famous natural wonders, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Iguazu Falls. There are ...

EXCLUSIVE: Archaeologists Ed Barnhart and John W Hoopes discuss claims in a new Netflix series that the Amazon rainforest was ...

The UK is contributing to deforestation of the Amazon, WWF warned as it urged ministers to ban the sale of commodities linked ...