Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Presidents and ministers from six Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree measures to protect the world's biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation. The ...

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...

Brazil’s flagship Amazon rainforest protection program brought in one of the largest single-year funding hauls in its history in 2023, boosting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s push to halt ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in ...

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star ...

Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area was established to protect a swath of the Amazon Rainforest from the cattle industry. However, satellite data show the reserve has lost around ...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Presidents from South America's Amazon nations gathered Friday alongside Indigenous leaders to agree on a joint plan to safeguard the world's largest rainforest -- a vast region ...