By Fernanda Wenzel As international leaders, corporations and NGOs gear up to discuss efforts to tackle global warming at the ...

In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting ... of a nearby port that connects to buyers as far away as China. A bridge to Peru also opened up another market, and ...

Recently burned forestland in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Suzie Hubbard/WWF ... what’s happening in the Amazon, indeed what is happening all around the world, we have to acknowledge that it may feel far away ...

Experts believe dredging could unearth buried mercury deposits, which would harm the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem.

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters ... Sao Francisco do Maina, between the Amazon River and the Puraquequara lagoon, not far from Manaus, the state capital. Normally, she would cross the lagoon by boat ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left ...

Water levels in Brazil's Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and dry seasons, but the dry portion of this year has been much worse than usual. All of the major rivers in the Amazon basin ...

.BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ... Smoke from the blazes has reached cities as far away as Sao Paulo, despite being thousands of miles from the fires. This dire situation has ...

The cost of bottled water and other goods in far-flung areas has surged, too. Water levels in Brazil’s Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and dry seasons – but not like this.