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

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 ...

When people imagine where rain begins, they usually picture dark clouds gathering over the ocean before drifting across ...

A new management plan for Oregon’s western state-owned forests is one of two recent plans the Board of Forestry approved to ...

A documentary-maker has spent more than a month in the Amazon rainforest to capture some of the world's rarest animals on ...

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

The UK has abandoned projects worth tens of millions of pounds that were meant to help protect Congo rainforests and support ...

Trees are so common that it’s easy to assume no one has ever counted ...

An international team of scientists has documented 27 previously unknown species in a remote stretch of Peruvian rainforest, ...

In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it ...

Brazil is using forensic science to tackle illegal gold mining in the Amazon. The mining is a top threat to the rainforest ...