Super El Niños happen when water in the tropical Pacific heats up, changing weather patterns all around the world. The hotter ...

Indigenous people in Brazil have marched in the capital, Brasilia, to protest what they say are violations of their land ...

Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent ...

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s banks will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit beginning on Wednesday in the South American country.

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

The Brazilian government auctioned its first-ever public land concession for reforestation to startup Re.green, marking an ...

You’ve heard of the Amazon rainforest, but have you heard of its neighbor, the cerrado? It’s a vast savanna — the most biodiverse in the world — of swaying grasses punctuated by trees. But its most ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters, Aiga and Babawru, lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts ...