Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

For decades, scientists have warned that the Amazon rainforest might one day reach a tipping point, transforming into a ...

Marina Silva is stepping down as Brazil’s environment minister so that she can run for Congress in national elections ...

After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a tall, slender palm known as Socratea exorrhiza has sparked one of nature’s most intriguing ...

New research finds that even a few scattered trees on farmland can give a big boost to forest wildlife. On the edges of the ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.