The Amazon Rainforest teems with exotic, diverse wildlife, from energetic monkeys to colorful macaws to predatory jaguars.

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year. The ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to one-tenth of the animal species in the world, according to some scientists. Jaguars, sloths, caimans, howler monkeys, capybaras, pink river dolphins, macaws, anacondas ...

Amazon Rainforest May Be Close to Total Collapse, Study Warns. Published Feb 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM EST Updated Feb 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM EST. By . Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the most important ecosystems in the world. It’s a source of biodiversity that protects thousands of rare species. It’s responsible for nearly 6% of the planet ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

The Amazon rainforest has reached a new record for deforestation for the first half of this year. Satellite imagery of the rainforest taken from January to June show how 4,000 square kilometers ...

When this tipping point will occur is unclear, but 2019 work found that 17 per cent of the Amazon basin’s rainforest had been lost, and an estimate from 2018 put the future threshold at about 20 ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...