Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A British man has reportedly been lynched and burned alive by a mob in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region. He was said to ...

A foreigner – reported as ‘English’ or ‘British’ in local media – was beaten by residents who accused him of shooting a man ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can provide a fresh ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

Amendment to Peru Law Raises Fears of Amazon Rainforest Destruction BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental ...

FORMER Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo has been tasked with an Amazon delivery… after joining a club in the Brazilian rainforest.

true story of explorer Henry Bates' fascinating 11 year journey through the visually stunning and biodiverse Amazon rainforest as a young man who risks his life for science in the 1850's. As in any ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares — about 60% of Peru’s territory, according to the nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one of ...