"This is excellent news and will come as a relief to the residents." Lawmakers move to extend historic ban protecting vital ...

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.

For now, there is no need to build a bridge across the Amazon, which will come as a relief to its South American countries, ...

“It is a cruel irony that a highway destroying the Amazon rainforest is being built for a climate summit meant to protect it,” the Executive Coordinator of YouthNet Global, Sohanur Rahman, said in a ...

Gregg Brandalise was inspired to tell the story of how Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun, fought for 40 years to save the Amazon rainforest and its people after watching the documentary ...

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 ...

Scientists working on Will Smith's new show found a record-breaking anaconda species in the Amazon rainforest. The discovery, led by Professor Bryan Fry, involves the 20.7 feet long northern green ...