Fisher Stevens, who produced the 'We Are Guardians' documentary about the Amazon rainforest destruction, says these stories ...

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While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...

In northern Zambia in February, a tailings dam at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine suddenly collapsed, spilling 50 million liters of waste containing cyanide and arsenic into the Kafue River.

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...