Indigenous leader Tomas Candia hopes the light rains that began this week over parts of Bolivia's Amazon rainforest will ...

Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and ...

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings ...

The "Guardians of the Forest" have taken up arms against the "invaders." Know it or not, Laercio Guajajara is fighting for you. The 35-year-old indigenous Brazilian is a member of the Amazon’s ...

The Amazon has suffered its most destructive fire season in more than two decades, releasing a staggering 791 million tons of carbon dioxide—on par with Germany’s annual emissions. Scientists found ...

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...