In the wilds of Tasmania’s Tarkine, there are few visible tracks and no huts, toilets, park rangers or phone reception. But ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

Pope Francis died during the run-up to the 10th anniversary of his signing the groundbreaking, earthmoving papal encyclical ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

Just a few hundred feet from the Amazon River delta, Ivan Ferreira is converting used shipping containers into hotel rooms ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) — The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley has sued The New York Times and TMZ for defamation, following a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon ...