The area burned in Brazil's Amazon last year was the smallest since monitoring began in 1985, scientists have said - a ...

The work takes place at the National Institute of Criminalistics in Brasilia, the country’s capital, where federal police ...

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous ...

Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon ...

The Ashaninka Indigenous people, who reclaimed their territory on the Brazil-Peru border decades ago, now face threats from ...

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

Environmentalists say monitoring — enforcement of the laws — is responsible in large part for the steady decline, which has ...

On a warm summer afternoon near Lake Quinault in Washington’s Olympic National Park, I stepped out of the rainforest and straight toward the water. Behind me, the trail dripped in old man’s beard moss ...

There is ongoing turmoil in the native forest logging industry, as revealed in the ABC’s Four Corners program that aired last night. The evidence presented was unambiguous: the native forest logging ...

The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, ...

A proposed federal logging project in the forests bordering Yellowstone National Park is drawing growing concern from local residents, business owners and conservation advocates who fear it could have ...

Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. Read the paper: ...