The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Months after enduring floods that destroyed crops, thousands of families in the Brazilian Amazon are now dealing with severe drought

Mining co-ops – with oversize influence in the government – are moving into the Amazon’s Madidi national park

There are no bridges or roads that connect the city-island of Parintins to the rest of the world. This remote city in the Amazon is 369 kilometres away from Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. Parintins is home to thousands of low-income and Indigenous Brazilians and can only be…

The cavernous Turbine Hall has become a spectral memory forest as Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña mourns the destruction of the Amazon rainforest

The operator of Ecuador's private oil pipeline on Friday disclosed a spill in the Andean country's Amazon region, saying vandals damaged tubing that was no longer in service and caused an unspecified quantity of crude still in the tube to escape into the environment.

These tiny, wood-tunneling pesky pests can cause serious structural issues if they invade your home – here's how to get rid of them successfully

Yesterday, we revealed how nature is in grave danger with the WWF saying thousands of species are in decline, most severely in Latin America, home to the Amazon, where numbers have fallen by 94%

Wildlife populations have fallen nearly 70% globally since 1970, the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet Report reveals – equivalent to a wipe-out of everyone in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania and China

WWF has called for legislation to take deforestation-linked products off UK shelves.

Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists

Since 1970, the population sizes of global wildlife have plummeted by nearly 70%, says WWF latest Living Planet Report, the most comprehensive in its 24-year history