Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Their range spans just 800,000 hectares (about 2 million acres), much of it now fragmented by roads, farmland and urban sprawl into isolated forest patches ... that sits in the eye of the storm of the ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

An amendment to a Peruvian law has shaken environmentalists who warn it may accelerate Amazon deforestation in the name of ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

In Northeastern’s alumni center March 20, editors and contributors shared their personal experiences creating 'Daughters of ...

Schlindwein's family of monkeys is curtailed to a patch of land the size of a polo field, in a region with the ignominious title "Arc of deforestation" for having the highest rate of Amazon forest ...

The encounter inspired Schlindwein to launch a reforestation drive to open a corridor for the monkeys to swing tree-by-tree back into the rainforest. In the Brazilian Amazon, endangered orange ...

Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon. Never before had he seen one of the striking creatures emerge from the forest.

SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest ...