Lining the top of a steep slope down to the water is a row of solid but rustic wooden homes. A short walk into the brush behind, manioc root crops, and maybe some bean...

Now, he and hundreds of other successful farmers are replanting trees as part of an ambitious initiative to reduce deforestation. Their goal — to set aside...

TENS of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases...

Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For...

The Brazilian government has unveiled plans to ban sugar cane plantations in environmentally sensitive areas.

The Amazon has always been Brazil’s version of the Wild West. Here’s one example why. Brazilian police are investigating a state congressman and former...

José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy...

Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the...

Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say. A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...

The South American country of Peru is in a state of emergency. For four days, National Police forces have engaged Amazonian Indians in the peasant town of Bagua Grande....

She remembers the spot in the hallway where her father said, “They shot me,” then fell into the arms of his wife.

Brazil is filing criminal charges against 81 people accused of being the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rain forest.

The Amazon is one of the richest areas of the world in animal and plant diversity. There can be more plant species in one hectare of Amazon rainforest than there are in...

The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines...

A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is...

A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite...

Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish...

Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest.

After the announcement of Diablo III, Amazon has had a massive spike of requests for the Diablo II set. The game has risen to their bestselling list pretty quickly. The...

There is one question that arose a few times here and that became a real debate: in what extent the banks, in time to adopt rural credits, are responsible for the...