Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% of Peru's territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one of the ...

Amendment to Peru Law Raises Fears of Amazon Rainforest Destruction BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental ...