The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to ...

Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth's energy budget, water cycle, and climate. However, the origin of aerosol ...

The Lula administration has announced plans to increase fines for violators. New report uncovers disturbing factor driving ...

But last year, US President Joe Biden pledged to request Congress to contribute US$500 million to the Amazon Fund over five ...

The rate of deforestation in the world’s largest rainforest fell 30.6% year ... highways and oil drilling at the mouth of the ...

Called the "Angelim Vermelho" or  Dinizia excelsa. It's considered the tallest tree in the tropical Americas at a height of 290 feet.

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month ...

President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this month when he travels to Brazil as part of a six-day trip to Latin America ...

According to the Ministry of Labor and Employment, 3,190 workers being held captive were rescued throughout the country in ...

The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...

A prolonged drought, now in its second year, is devastating large swaths of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Whole communities and the Amazon’s largest city are struggling under the parched conditions.