Brazil's biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there's a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence ...

In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest ...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through ...

A burnout pushed one woman to build a new, nature-friendly career in one of the rainforest’s most deforested cities.

Brazil’s Mato Grosso state lost almost 50,000 hectares to illegal logging in one year, data shows. Criminal groups were ...

Some of the Amazon rainforest’s remotest reaches lie not in Brazil, but in Ecuador. A weeklong river cruise reveals the creatures, plants, and people that define this extraordinary region.

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...