The seizure of one of the largest known mercury shipments in history, moving from mines in Mexico to illegal Amazon ...

The “Tipping Point” 3:38 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's role 5:01 Recognition of Indigenous Reserves 5:49 Zero-Deforestation ...

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

The Amazon rainforest, the vessel holding a massive amount of the world’s oxygen, is burning at a rate scientists have never seen before.. The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has ...

A TRAVEL theme set the wheels in motion for Cork couple Deana Hurley and Eric O’Leary’s big day. Deana, from Bandon, and Eric ...

Dave Boyer heads to Brazil to explore the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It’s a place of breathtaking beauty and constant sensory stimulation. But here, just one step can lead to calamity. When ...

For the first time, parts of the Amazon rainforest are releasing more carbon dioxide than it can absorb due to deforestation and climate change, a new study confirmed.. The world’s largest ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the most important natural assets on the planet. As Brazilians head to the polls later this month, the question is whether protecting this environmental gem will ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense ...