By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium ...

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

As deforestation and climate change threaten to transform the Amazon, there is growing concern that the ecosystem may be ...

A Brazilian federal judge granted an injunction on Monday temporarily suspending a decision from antitrust watchdog CADE that ...

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. It harbors immense biodiversity and plays a crucial role in the global climate ...

A website containing information about Brazil's "soy moratorium," a private agreement enforced by global grain traders to ...

Moreover, the Amazon as a whole stores carbon equivalent to 15-20 years of current human CO2 emissions. Amazon forest loss therefore further drives global warming and intensifies the consequences.

Let’s take a look at the most common animals in the stunning Amazon Rainforest. This post was updated on June 16, 2025 to include information on the newly discovered Ranitomeya aetherea.

Some areas of the Amazon rainforest are more resilient to drought than others, new research shows. But if not managed carefully, we could 'threaten the integrity of the whole system,' researchers say.

Investments would be made in sustainable, forest-grown crops such as cacao, cupuaçu and açaí, rather than cattle and soy, for which vast swaths of the forest have already been cleared.