Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

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 ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – 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 ...

Slowing deforestation in Brazil and pledges to ban oil drilling in Colombia offer slivers of hope for the Amazon.

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A person walks on the BR-319 highway through smoke from a forest fire that reaches Careiro Castanho in Brazil's Amazonas ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Brazil is pushing to build a 621-mile railway through the Amazon even as it hosts the U.N. climate summit and ...

A U.S. carbon-credit marketing company, a French bank and corporate buyers are looking to invest more than $200 million to support forest-conservation projects throughout the Amazon led by indigenous ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future. Understanding how soil, roots and ...