The Mashco Piro have chosen to be cut off from the world for more than a century. They hunt with long bows and arrows, ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of ...

These investments are complicit in genocide,” said Jonas Mura, chief of the Gavião Real Indigenous Territory in Brazil.

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade ...

Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent ...

Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is unclear if this trend will continue ...