There is probably no better documentary to introduce viewers to the current struggles of the Amazon. This would be a fine film to show eventually in parishes and adult-education forums.

Directed by Pablo Albarenga and produced with support from the Pulitzer Center and OpenDemocracy, the 18-minute documentary explores the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance and its fight to protect ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...

Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to about 10% of the world’s known species. This huge Tropical ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6 percent in the 12 months through July from a year earlier, bringing deforestation to its lowest level in nine years, official data released last ...

Raiumundo Freire, who harvests a mixture of forest products including açaí and cacau, said he’s witnessed the process himself. He first moved to the Triunfo do Xingu territory in 1986, when it ...

05-30-2025 IMPACT If the Amazon rainforest dried out, here’s what would happen A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

New plants and animals are discovered all the time A new species of plant or animal was discovered in the Amazon rainforest every three days between 1999 and 2009, according to a World Wildlife ...