Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a ...

Tree-felling in the Amazon rainforest is partly to blame for pollution that is plaguing UK rivers such as the Wye, a new ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the city of Belem, aims to highlight ...

The Discovery That Changed Climate Science The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the ...

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

Indigenous representatives from all nine Amazon Basin countries, gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima this week, pressed ...

During this term, Brazil’s president has reduced deforestation but he is government is pushing projects that would open up the Amazon to extractivism.

This impact is being felt directly by the indigenous groups who have been living there for thousands of years, but also the world as a whole. In this episode we’re joined by Graihagh Jackson, from the ...

New data show resilience among the rainforest’s giants, though scientists warn that nutrient limits and rising heat could end ...

The Mashco Piro have chosen to be cut off from the world for more than a century. They hunt with long bows and arrows, relying on the Amazonian rainforest for everything they need. "They started ...

A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the ...