PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Amazon rainforest activist Paul Rosolie claimed he was blocked from using the word "Amazon" in Google Ads while discussing ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

In an unusual development, members of an Amazon tribe who avoid contact with outsiders have been seen entering a village Indigenous advocates find that alarming and a sign of stress as a logging ...