In 1993, Chile passed a major Indigenous Law that created a formal process for returning ancestral land to Indigenous communities. Over the following 30 years, more than 510,000 acres were returned to ...

When the results were projected across the civilization’s entire range, the researchers produced a cautious estimate of more ...

Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a system-wide ...

Most Houstonians probably haven't heard of Project Eagle. Public records reveal Amazon's nearly $10 billion data center ...

The effects of climate on forest biomass differs among forests on with different histories on a continental scale ...

Picture a tropical forest, and you probably see one thing: a dense, dripping, impossibly tall green wall repeating itself from the Amazon to the Congo to Borneo. A massive new satellite study says ...

Satellite images can be used to estimate how much carbon forests store as aboveground biomass (AGB) and how biomass varies in different forests. In a study published in the journal Nature, a team of ...

Scientists from Brazil and other countries have discovered a new species of frog in the flooded forests of the western Amazon. They named it Adenomera varcena. This finding significantly advances our ...

The ruling upheld an agreement barring purchases of soybeans grown on Amazon land cleared after 2008, while allowing states to withdraw tax incentives from participating companies.

Recent research shows that small-scale agriculture in the Amazon can mask a dramatic loss of biodiversity when viewed across entire landscapes.

According to the annual study conducted by the environmental monitoring network MapBiomas, native vegetation covered 79% of Brazil's land in 1985 but has since decreased to approximately 65%. The ...

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities.