Lesly, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin lived in the Amazon rainforest for over a month after their plane crashed Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

Environmental and Indigenous activists say the railway, if it proceeds, will unleash an explosion of carbon and further ...

"I think we can confidently say that the more deforestation happens, the lower this global warming threshold becomes." ...

When President Joe Biden worked to burnish his climate legacy in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, the unspoken presence of Donald Trump shadowed the historic stop. A sitting American president had ...

Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

For the first time, scientists have documented microplastics in frog tadpoles living in the wild Amazon rainforest — and the contamination showed up in every single pond and every single tadpole they ...

The Amazon rainforest has been plundered for decades for rubber, timber and gold. Now, seeking a new treasure, illegal prospectors are setting their sights on the critical minerals coveted by much of ...

As gold prices have quadrupled over the past decade, miners across the globe are scrambling to cash in. But the boom has cast a dark shadow across South America's Amazon rainforest. Illegal mining has ...

By Enrique Ortiz In the coming months, voters in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia will elect new presidents. Together, these three ...