A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments ...

The Leonardo DiCaprio, Fisher Stevens-produced doc 'We Are Guardians,' about efforts to save the Brazilian Rainforest, has ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Deforestation may release significant amounts of this carbon ... Found in the treetops of the Amazon Rainforest, these lazy creatures prefer to spend their days hanging by their powerful claws from a ...

Airbus offers a range of satellite imaging services that help its clients react more effectively to natural disasters, monitor environmental changes such as deforestation, and optimize agricultural ...

Illegal gold mining led to the destruction of 4,219 hectares of forest across four Indigenous territories in the Amazon region over 2023-24, according to a report by Greenpeace. Illegal gold mining ...

An Indigenous person carries a scale during a march at the annual Free Earth camp where Brazil’s Indigenous communities discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30, which will take ...

Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, pushing deep into the rainforest and indigenous lands. Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus ... Their habitats are increasingly being lost to deforestation, and they are hunted for their meat. Giant Otter juvenile, Cuiba River, Near Porto ...