Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

What these men had in common, according to those who knew them, is that they spoke out against drug cartels engaged in ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested area since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

“The Madeira is a little further below the equatorial region ... reached the rainforest. These were the worst events observed in the Amazon Basin in more than 120 years of data, also affected ...

Tropical rainforests mainly occur inside the world's equatorial regions ... The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river basin of South America. Over half of this ...

In contrast, 60 percent of around 2,250 South American blocks outside the rainforest basin have ... in the “equatorial margin“. This coastal strip extends for thousands of kilometres near the equator ...

Today, after hours of baking beneath the hot equatorial sun ... The Congo Basin encompasses the world’s second largest rainforest, behind the Amazon, spanning about 500 million acres across ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is pressuring the government’s environment agency Ibama to drop its objections to allowing state-controlled oil energy Petrobras to drill for oil in the ...

Credit: Mark Witton/The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the Amazon, ...

A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers what is now the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin and Sahara ... of Pangaea that long ago, the equatorial middle can’t have ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...

Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest ... Around one-fifth of the rainforest has been lost over the last 50 years, for example to make way for agriculture.