In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Do you know which forest is known as the monsoon forest? Discover the trees that change with the seasons, provide vital timber, and thrive on heavy rains.

After analyzing 40 years of tree records across the Andes and Amazon, researchers found that climate change is reshaping ...

Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that ...

And at night, when our guide scanned the forest with a torch, we saw an extraordinary range of creatures, including sloths, ...

Let’s take a journey through 30 amazing facts about Brazil. By the time you reach the end, you might just be checking flights.

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