Stand.earth finds financing surges since 2024 while Brazil’s Petrobras pushes new drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River ahead of COP30 in Belém.

Scientists warn that "flying rivers" — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance.

For years, gold mining has been one of Peru’s most pressing environmental challenges, with illegal operations clearing the ...

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...

On Oct. 7 in Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered ...

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...

Brazil expands gold-tracing to combat cross-border smuggling Interpol's Gaia Project supports global adoption of Brazil's tracing method Amazon Police Cooperation Center aids in tackling environmental ...

BELEM, Brazil — The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. It's a crucial carbon sink for the climate, has about 20% of ...

By Pilar Puentes In Colombia’s Amazon, two communities have worked for more than a decade to guard their territory and to ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is ...

A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is ...