The Amazon rainforest is in deep trouble. Labeling it a “crisis” however seems too hackneyed and not descriptive enough ...

A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of hedging on the issue, has committed his government to finishing ...

In the Eastern Amazon flooded forest, trees stay partly covered by water due to the rainy season that typically lasts from February to June. Photo is taken in early August when the water levels start ...

South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in ...

South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data on Wednesday indicate huge swathes of the jungle that are most vital ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has committed to completing the BR-319 highway through the Amazon rainforest, a ...

The team, wearing gumboots caked with mud, were at the beginning of a monthslong process of painstakingly measuring pretty much every woody plant growing on this patch of Amazon rainforest in ...

Federal highway BR-319, a roughly 900 km (560 miles) stretch from Porto Velho near Bolivia to the Amazon's largest city of Manaus, was first bulldozed through the forest in the 1970s by Brazil's ...

Brazil's Lula Backs Highway Through Amazon That Could Drive Deforestation By Bruno Kelly and Anthony Boadle MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of ...