The Amazon rainforest, spanning eight countries, is a vital ecosystem housing 10% of Earth's species and holding 20% of the world's freshwater. It stores billions of tons of carbon, crucial for ...

As Mongabay reported, Brazil's federal court overturned a recent suspension of the 2006 moratorium late last month. The ...

That harm can look like respiratory diseases such as asthma caused by toxic air pollution after fires, or illnesses that ...

Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. (Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...

U.S. President Joe Biden toured Brazil's Amazon rainforest on Sunday, as he called for future generations to protect its wildlife and the delicate ecological balance. Photo courtesy of President Joe ...

The first study of its kind, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), gathered data from 1,733 municipalities representing more than 74% of the Amazon to find that forests on ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

Scientific study suggests destruction of the Amazon rainforest directly impacts human health - New study finds well-preserved ...

Researchers have compiled more than 154,000 records of camera trap images form the Amazon Rainforest, recording 317 species of birds, mammals and reptiles. This is the first study to compile and ...

LOS AMIGOS BIOLOGICAL STATION, Peru, Aug 5 (Reuters) - In a camping tent in the Peruvian jungle, four scientists crowded around a tiny patient: An Amazonian rodent that could fit in the palm of a ...

As a city kid, many people find it hard to believe that I love nature. I guess it’s a part of my Tanzanian heritage, but I always enjoy my time when I’m outside in nature. So when I had the ...

Nov. 17 (UPI) --U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on future generations to safeguard and protect the wildlife and the delicate ecological balance in the Amazon rainforest while visiting the ...