For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

Henry Ford built his what he considered his idealized city in the Amazon Rainforest, Fordlandia, but circumstances left it ...

Brazil is facing accusations of hypocrisy after cutting down large sections of the Amazon rainforest to construct ... more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in ...

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

The Amazon rainforest is crucial to mitigating global climate change, as it can store up to 200 billion tons of carbon, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The Amazon is also vital to the global ...

As the northern Brazil city of Belem prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in November, a new BBC report has revealed that a stretch of the Amazon rainforest is being cleared to build a road ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

There’s a chance the gold ring on your finger or the chain around your neck has a link to the prolific destruction of the Amazon rainforest ... Peru ranks among the world’s top gold producers ...

At the time of this interview, the 73-year-old Nobre had just flown back from the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos ... as late as the 1990s, the Amazon rainforest was still removing close to 1 ...