The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the ...

The world's largest rain forest houses an abundance of wildlife. March 11, 2009 — -- It's home to the world's most vast variety of living creatures with the most birds, freshwater fish and ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Nearly 20 years ago, a Brazilian lobbying group for soy trading and processing companies signed onto a historic conservation ...

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 ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest against deforestation.