We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assassinated by ranchers in December 1988. She ...

Rubber tapping in the forest was once the main Amazonian economic activity, and now an Indigenous group is bringing it back. Partnering with Brazilian organizations, Indigenous Gavião communities find ...

“It was like searching for the needle in the haystack.” Martínez and Franco had embarked that day on a rescue mission. For decades, adventurers and hunters had provided tantalizing reports that an ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe drought, with major rivers at record lows, leading to water shortages and ...