In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.A warming climate fed ...

Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, already one of the largest supporters of conservation in the Amazon region, will commit an additional $100 million over five years to protect rainforests in ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. After five decades studying the plants and peoples of the Amazon, ...

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - March 12, 2025) - ONE AMAZON, a groundbreaking initiative that transforms rainforest conservation into a market-driven investment opportunity, has secured a ...

Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. Often called the “lungs of ...