A team led by Michigan Technological University researcher Jared Wolfe is the first to uncover why long-lived rainforest birds are declining in an untouched environment historically considered a ...

Brazil’s tropical forests are under pressure. Startup re.green won for the Earthshot Prize for its efforts to restore them.

Spanning Brazil, Peru, Colombia and more, the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It holds 10% of known wildlife ...

Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo are home to more than half of the planet's tropical rainforests. By Laura Baisas Published Nov 15, 2022 12:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science ...

Brazil has unveiled long-awaited details about a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in financial pledges.

BRASILIA, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The lower house of Brazil's Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday put forward his vision for how the Amazon rainforest should be protected, a future that didn’t depend on donations from ...

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing.