Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...

An American tourist has reportedly died after drinking hallucinogenic herbal tea during an ayahuasca session in Peru. The ...

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio ...

Co-directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, the documentary introduces us to several competing concerns: activists, logging interests and landowners.

Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system ...

The Amazon rainforest is a sprawling, vibrant ecosystem teeming with extraordinary creatures like jaguars, poisonous dart ...

Tourists often treat Ecuador as little more than a gateway to the Galápagos Islands, but it has many other treasures too, ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

But don’t worry: You’ve come to the right place. Read on to learn 15 Amazon rainforest facts that will give you a taste of what can be found in the rainforest. There are thousands of tree ...

Understanding how drought can affect the Amazon, an area twice the size of India that crosses into several South American nations, has implications far beyond the region. The rainforest stores a ...