The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

READ: Amazon tree loss may worsen both floods and droughts ... Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible ... WWF said the thinning number of trees means they can no longer effectively recycle the moisture that maintains the ecosystem, leaving ...

It is perhaps a slightly more niche destination; a stop for river cruises heading into the Amazon rainforest ... peeling the cocoa by hand until 2018, when technology thankfully took over.

It was a situation that was common across the Amazon, the world’s largest ... In the Yanesha Communal Reserve, farmers have planted cacao trees without cutting down other tree species, helping to ...