The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Last year, an area larger than India was lost to wildfires worldwide.

The vast tropical forest nations of Brazil and Indonesia are both home to millions of people, including Indigenous communities. They store enormous amounts of carbon to protect our climate and are home to staggering numbers of species found nowhere else in the world.

Milestone signals stark new reality for the planet – and raises the alarm about impending catastrophes

At the foot of the Andes, a Canadian firm has plans for one of the country’s biggest copper mines, but many say the carbon-rich forests and clean rivers are too high a price to pay

Scientists warn coral ecosystems, on which nearly a billion people depend for food and livelihood, are tipping into irreversible decline

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes.

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis.

This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon.

"Red John" is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon.