How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their ...

Legend has it that the Santiago river used to swallow the canoe of anyone trying to explore it. Now an indigenous community ...

Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most ...

In 2024, Mongabay investigative reporter Fernanda Wenzel traveled to one of the most dangerous spots in the Brazilian Amazon ...

Rivers in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to their lowest levels in over a century on Monday as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3% in the 12 months through July, government data showed Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made progress on a pledge to rein in the ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

As the holidays approach and island life begins to explore another winter season, a rapidly growing trend is circulating through our communities.

By Mark J. Plotkin Having studied the healing plants and peoples of tropical South America for well over four decades, I am ...