The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Peru’s top court has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area of the Amazon

Each year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest, with 95% of this deforestation occurring in tropical regions. South America is a major hotspot, with Brazil in particular facing severe forest loss — much of it driven by cattle ranching, which accounts for more than 70% of all…

Editorial: Dom Phillips’ posthumously published book is an urgent reminder of why this unique landscape matters so much

A team of writers complete the vital book that Guardian reporter Dom Phillips was working on at the time of his murder

The country's Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the €400-million scheme during a visit to French Guiana on Sunday.

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups

Researchers believe climate change may cause the death of large trees and reduce the area’s ability to act as a carbon sink.

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are far more likely to follow laws prohibiting the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested land

Leaders of Ecuador’s Waorani Indigenous community gathered at Quito's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, urging recognition of territorial rights threatened by government-backed oil projects.

Amazon Catholics say the new pope is needed at COP30 in Brazil later this year.

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest protection and rights at the center of Church concern