Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers serve as highways and entire communities sit days away from the nearest ...

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that ...

Organized crime in South America is a growing threat to the Amazon rainforest, according to a report published Tuesday, as ...

Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest in 2024, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest—the most biodiverse and carbon-dense type of forest on Earth. That loss, which ...

A new study of Colombia’s lowland forests and savannas finds that the nation may have extensive peatlands — organic wetland soils formed over thousands of years — holding as much as 70 years’ worth of ...