Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Learn why the Amazon is critical for our planet and how WWF is working to protect its forests, rivers, and wildlife from growing threats.

Dinosaur footprints found in the Amazon rainforest offer rare evidence of Jurassic-era species once roaming this tropical ...

More than ten footprints from the Jurassic-Cretaceous period were found in the Tacutu Basin, in Roraima, a state in northern ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Between the parents, the four kids, the dog, the two sloths, the python and the baby caiman, it’s a tight fit in the Silva family’s two-room floating home in the Amazon ...

As Brazil’s government seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Slaughterhouses that agreed to a settlement with Brazilian prosecutors were far more likely to obey environmental laws banning the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of ...

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA has imposed 365 million reais ($64 ...

With a spear in hand and red hair rising like fire, the mischievous forest guardian from Brazil's Indigenous folklore, ...