Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ramp ...

The research team collected around 13,000 location ... "This alters the dynamics of the ecosystem. The Amazon Rainforest is sensitive to changes. Prolonged droughts reduce humidity and increase ...

according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It covers some 5.5 million square kilometres, and spans nine countries.

Multiple climate "tipping points" are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research ...

Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil Biden spoke after becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold ... The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could ...

DNA analysis indicates these bats may be members of a new, undescribed species, but more research is required to confirm ... been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon ...

The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...