Andean Parliament declares State of Emergency for Amazon Basin: meet the activist who made it happen. Earlier this month the Amazon Basin netted a necessary win - the Andean Parliament declared a ...

Forest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal burning of forests and pastures. Helicopter used in ...

Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.

The Madeira Basin has the most diverse fish life in the Amazon River Basin with 1,406 species catalogued, but human interference and the climate crisis are provoking a significant decline in fish ...

Discover the squirrel monkey and how deforestation threatens its rainforest home despite being listed as least concern.

In October 2023, the Rio Negro at Manaus dropped to its lowest point since Brazilian authorities began measuring it in 1903. Boats sat stranded on exposed sandbars. Entire stretches of river that ...

The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s largest tropical forest and a critical ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...

BELEM, Brazil, July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen launched on Saturday a new effort with Amazon basin governments to disrupt illicit finance that fuels nature crimes, including ...

The Amazon is changing faster than many researchers once thought possible, and the signals are no longer subtle. From record fires and creeping savannization to a looming “hypertropical” climate shift ...