By Shanna Hanbury Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," due to its vast capacity to ...

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the ...

Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost ...

The catastrophic fires ravaging Los Angeles have become the most destructive in the state’s history, decimating native ecosystems, killing at least 29 people, destroying more than 12,000 ...

After conducting research in Ecuador and Colombia, Rebecca Tarvin, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative ...

A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil soared 85% in 2019, compared with the previous year, official data showed Tuesday. The 9,166 square kilometers cleared was the highest ...

In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the death of Sister Stang, who is considered by many as a "Martyr of the Amazon," a ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing ... Brazil and working with corporations that are responsible for deforestation in the Amazon. “There are more than 300 McDonald’s ...

The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...