The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking time bomb for the emergence or resurgence of diseases with pandemic potential. This is because environmental degradation and altered landscapes are important factors in this process, which are exacerbated during periods of extreme drought, such as…

The historic drought in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle and put at risk the livelihoods of remote Indigenous and riverside communities

Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assets

Leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and other countries with the three largest tropical forest basins are meeting to form a coalition to protect tropical forests from deforestation and destruction

As the Amazon drought rages on, public authorities in Brazil are scrambling to deliver food and water to thousands of isolated communities throughout a vast and roadless territory, where boats are the only means of transportation

Every year, descendants of 19th-century emigrants to Pozuzo celebrate their unique history with dances, dirndls and beer

‘This time we found not just more carvings but the sculpture of a human face cut into the rock’

Human faces and other figures believed to be up to 2,000 years old exposed as Brazil river level hits record low

Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communities