"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

Brazil reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80% from 2004 to 2012 but in fact, the rate of deforestation has risen since ...

Brazil’s environment minister bets on safeguards for the highway, but history shows similar plans have failed.

A road that once opened the Amazon to destruction is being expanded, and critics fear history will repeat itself.

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ...

Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

Recent research shows that there is considerable overlap in the important corridors for jaguars and key freshwater species, ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Suriname’s government has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its tropical forests, a move ...

Brazil’s Federal Police can trace whether gold came from an illegal mine in the Amazon rainforest, and investigators told ...

The Amazon was approaching a "point of no return" of 20 to 25 percent vegetation loss at which it "ceases to sustain itself ...

The images, analysed by MapBiomas, clearly showed a loss of 49.1 million hectares or 121 million acres of rainforest between ...