When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

More Andiroba of the Amazon Region is a large tree whose scientific name is Carapa guaianensis, and whose fruits, seeds and oil can be found in natural product stores. Getty Images.

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

Brazil's Federal Prosecutor's Office has signed a landmark agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink to limit the use of its ...

The Amazon is in its worst state of the last 50 years.” Over ten thousand species are at high risk of extinction, researchers say, in large part due to deforestation, according to a report by ...

BRASILIA, April 19 (Reuters) - Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, ...

Such credentials have brought hope to clergymen and faithful in the Amazon region, a vast area with 48 million residents and 6.7 million square kilometres in South America.

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told ...