The Amazon rainforest is like nowhere else on the planet. But so is the Lacandón Jungle, and it's right here in Mexico!

Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

“The ‘forest man’ or ‘man forest,’ according to the Indigenous perspective, has always been linked to the reciprocity between ...

A study found that the average size of trees in the Amazon was increasing steadily, likely the result of their height utilizing natural resources.

Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest are nearing an irreversible "tipping point" and collapse in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn in a new paper ...

The big trees of the Amazon are getting bigger. But, as much as this helps to store carbon, they are also at risk.

25) in the journal Nature Plants, suggest the "benefits shared" response ... Other than diminishing our carbon emissions, the best way to buffer the Amazon rainforest against these factors is to leave ...

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...

"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

New study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them ...

RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia—The day the fire came, Dario Mamio Serato remembers that he could not breathe. The Amazon rainforest, known as the lungs of the Earth, was an inferno. Acrid smoke engulfed Mamio ...

Nature is taking the stage. The sunset starts to fade on a cloudy summer day next to the Main River in an industrial neighborhood of Frankfurt, Germany. The main artist of the festival is an ecologist ...