Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

The Leonardo DiCaprio, Fisher Stevens-produced doc 'We Are Guardians,' about efforts to save the Brazilian Rainforest, has ...

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

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

Mato Grosso is Brazil's top grains producer The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its ... from the same period in the prior year. Deforestation is a key factor behind global ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

It demands stronger federal and state policies to protect the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal ... government’s efforts to fight illegal deforestation and intentional wildfires,” said Paulo ...

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

The Amazon, home to unmatched biodiversity, faces constant threats from human activity, including industrial agriculture, deforestation ... species that call the rainforest home.

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil ... even retroactively legalizing past deforestation. Peru’s Constitutional Court upheld the amendment after a group ...