The Amazon Rainforest — a vast green expanse across nine countries, covering over six million square kilometers. From above, it is a living mosaic, dense, vibrant, and teeming with life. Glide over ...

Aerial view of the Amazon forest and the Red River, Colombia. © Luis Barreto / WWF-UK The world’s largest tropical forest is home to more species than anywhere ...

The Amazon Rainforest stretches endlessly across South America, forming the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. From above, its winding rivers carve through a vast ocean of green, revealing the ...

Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of Earth’s largest rainforest. There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Researchers developed a cost-effective way to collect DNA from species high in the rainforest canopy: they hung umbrellas to collect rainwater that washed through the trees. The method revealed 562 ...

The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same. Varî Vãti Marubo is likely one of the oldest people still living ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil's palm-dense Juruá ...

Groups of Mennonites, seeking inexpensive land far from modern life, are carving out new colonies in the Amazon. They are also raising fears that they are adding to the deforestation of the vital ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...