The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday Sonia Guajajara as the nation’s first Indigenous person to head up a ministry

Colombia has lost 86,985 hectares (214,944 acres) of Amazon jungle in the first nine months of the year while fires burned through swathes of felled areas, a local advocacy group said on Monday.

The activist for native peoples says she will work to overturn the ‘catastrophic legacy’ from Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more

‘I took this on the Trans-Amazonian Highway, which runs through the heart of the rainforest. It is being burned to clear land, a process that kills everything. It felt like the end of the world’

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

From the lush Amazon rainforest to the frigid Arctic Ocean, the world's landscapes — and all the wildlife they contain — are under threat, and the world needs to set aside a third of all land and sea territories to save them, U.N. experts say.