The Amazon rainforest is estimated to have 390 billion individual trees and innumerable species of plants and animals. Canopy ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast ... For decades, the dense jungle concealed these ancient ruins from view. Lidar technology, which maps the ground beneath the ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.

The Amazon and its future are just another subject in this divisive election where there is no common ground. The world knows what is happening to the rainforest and has called for it to stop.

ABC News’ Matt Gutman reports on the ground in Brazil where a record 80,000 fires this year are devouring vast swaths of forest. The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is experiencing a record amount ...