Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink.

Peruvian authorities have intensified efforts against illegal gold mining in the Amazon's Madre de Dios region.

For nearly two centuries, mainstream archaeology dismissed early accounts of massive Amazonian urban centers as mere ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a major blow to the future of the country’s soy moratorium, upholding state laws that deny tax incentives to farmers who ...

Previous strong El Niños have tested the Amazon’s limits, causing lasting damage on top of the destruction wrought by deforestation and climate change. El Niño-related droughts fueled rampant ...

Juliane Koepcke remembers the moment she regained consciousness amid the wreckage of a plane that had been struck down by a ...

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous ...

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

Every year, an estimated 6,000 to 24,000 people are killed by lightning around the world, and many more are injured.

Mineral dust lifted from North Africa can travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic before settling over South America.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government said nationwide deforestation increased slightly in 2025 but that it had still surpassed its four-year target to reduce forest loss under President ...