Amazon

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works...

To protect the Amazon and support the wellbeing of its people, its economy needs to shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built...

A group of UK and Peruvian researchers have carried out the first detailed study of how rural communities interact with peatlands in the Peruvian...

Conservation initiatives led by local and indigenous groups can be just as effective as schemes led by government, according to new research. In some...

The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum...

One of the largest area studies of forest loss impacting biodiversity shows that a third of the Amazon is headed toward or has just past a threshold...

The Amazon rainforest faces an uncertain future – one that an international research network hopes to help steer towards sustainability.

An ancient Incan toothache remedy – for centuries handed down among an indigenous people in the rainforests of Peru – could be on the cusp of...