In a wooden shack on stilts overlooking a muddy tributary of the Amazon, the shaman gently lays his palm on the head of his ...

The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

Nearly 20 years ago, a Brazilian lobbying group for soy trading and processing companies signed onto a historic conservation ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

Deep within a biosphere in the Ecuadorian Amazon is a luxury sanctuary that offers a fully guided immersion into the ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find ...

Spending 72 hours in the Amazon rainforest exposes the realities of one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Extreme ...

In a room at the back of her house, Vera Alves da Silva Oliveira keeps the air-conditioning on day and night to protect bags of seeds gathered by hand from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and Cerrado ...