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

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

The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expects to raise $2 billion in financing for sustainable projects ...

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

Current climate policy is insufficient. Learn how human emissions drive climate change and the consequences of inaction.

The rainforest is also a vital carbon sink. Its accounts for approximately a forth of the CO2 absorbed by land on Earth.

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a ...

Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park ... environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise ...

“What we’re seeing is a convergence of both legal and illegal interests,” said Vladimir Pinto, the Peru field coordinator for Amazon Watch ... Association for the Development of the Peruvian ...

FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul ... Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development.

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous organizations FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera ...

Critics say the change could legitimize years of illegal deforestation ... Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% ...