The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...

with the possibility that as much as 14.5 million metric tons of carbon could be released into the atmosphere, the study said. See All Key Ideas Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, ...

The Amazon rainforest is crucial to mitigating global ... as it releases 20 billion tons of water in the atmosphere per day. Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the ...

And that’s significant: Historically, forests remove more than 30 percent of all the carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere; as late as the 1990s, the Amazon rainforest was still removing ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over ... we can unlock massive removals of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere while bringing ecosystems back to life." ...