Governments and advocacy groups are urgently pushing countries to address greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, ...

Faced with a lack of consensus on global issues, and with the return of Donald Trump looming, Brazilian President Lula opened the G20 with a focus on poverty. But the key figure at the summit will be ...

The Amazon River in South America is the largest in the world. It supports diverse wildlife, millions of people and helps ...

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate—it also noticeably improves the health of humans who ...

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On top of the health risks, big oil and gas also pose a serious environmental threat to the rainforest. Oil spills in the Amazon could completely wipe out the fish population, eliminating a key food ...

In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware. FILE - A river borders an area that has been illegally ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this month when he travels to Brazil as part of a six-day trip to Latin America for ...

Luis ACOSTA/AFP/AFP More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF ...

The nation's future capital, Nusantara, opened its doors last month to up to 300 members of the general public daily for daytime bus tours. Located on more than 250,000 hectares of rainforest land on ...

BRASILIA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that has been criss-crossed with informal ...