Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem ...

Researchers warn the nearer humans venture to wildlife, the greater the likelihood we exchange diseases ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published ...

With the support of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, essentially all of Brazil’s government outside of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is promoting actions that push us toward ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is driven largely by criminal networks that use violence and intimidation against those ...