Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

An amendment to a Peruvian law has shaken environmentalists who warn it may accelerate Amazon deforestation in the name of ...

Last year, the country registered 237,000 fires and over 30.8 million ... creating even more flammable conditions across the ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

ExxonMobil plans a massive oil expansion in Guyana amid fears over an environmental disaster in the Amazon rainforest.

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

Brazil has struggled with water scarcity from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. Here's what the water-rich country is getting wrong.

The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...