The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same. Varî Vãti Marubo is likely one of the oldest people still living ...

Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Beneath a setting sun, marchers clad in feathered headdresses and hand ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest ...

SHARM El-SHEIKH, Egypt. - WWF’s Living Amazon Report, published today, argues that threats to the integrity of the Amazon must be stopped through urgent measures to protect 80% of the rainforest by ...

A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will cause more wildfires in the region. But for those who live in ...

How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their own unarmed guard. Nine nights of sacred ceremonies had passed. It was 2013, ...

Air pollution across the vast Amazon rainforest — commonly nicknamed Earth’s “lungs” — is actually worse than some of the world’s biggest cities, new data shows. The Amazon’s 50 million residents are ...

Between June 23 and July 6, 2025, police forces from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru joined forces in a cross-border law enforcement initiative targeting environmental crimes like illegal mining, ...

The construction of BR-319 is a contentious issue in Brazil. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will ...