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

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

"We always knew that for re.green to reach the size it wants, we would have to partner with landowners." Unlikely partnership ...

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

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It covers some 5.5 million square kilometres, and spans nine countries. It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than ...

With over 80,000 plant species and hundreds of thousands of animal species, the Amazon rainforest is a green ocean of life. Image: Cinétévé In the midst of this ecosystem, the kapok tree ...

Much of the Cerrado is a dense, tangled mess of stunted trees and shrubs, the whole place crawling with snakes. It pales in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north, the green lungs ...

Visitors to the Amazon who expect a "Discovery Channel-like experience" with "jaguars in every tree" and "anacondas on every shore" will be disappointed, Lonely Planet said. Instead, the ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

A young man from an isolated indigenous tribe who approached a community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian authorities said. The encounter ...

Having examined 1,207 tree species across 271 forest plots in six Brazilian regions in the Amazon Rainforest and Atlantic Forest, the study shows that tree species normally dominating landscapes ...