Amazon gold mining reshapes land, draining moisture and raising temperatures. This creates harsh conditions that stop new ...

Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

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

What these men had in common, according to those who knew them, is that they spoke out against drug cartels engaged in ...

Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset scheme to support the conservation of the Amazon ...

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, ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent ... That mercury also finds its way into trees, according to a study published in ...