A researcher’s quest to preserve tracts of the Amazon basin leads him into wild adventure.

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, ...

Explore the urgent crisis facing the Amazon rainforest in this in-depth documentary. Learn about the vital role the Amazon ...

Explore the enchanting world of the Amazon Rainforest, a vast ecosystem filled with unparalleled biodiversity and vibrant ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest against deforestation. Many of the trees cut down or ...

SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its members are quitting a nearly 20-year-old pact ...

The Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) is a massive conservation program that has helped reduce deforestation across 120 conservation areas in the Brazilian Amazon and avoided 104 million metric ...

The road to hell is paved. Whenever a dirt track in Brazil’s Amazon jungle is overlaid with asphalt, it takes little time for the emerald rainforest surrounding it to disappear in a suffocating plume ...