The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

The Amazon helps stabilize the global climate and is home to more than 40 million people and around 10% of the world’s known species. To protect the world’s largest tropical rain forest, Brazil ...

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.