The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat”— marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

Henry Ford built his what he considered his idealized city in the Amazon Rainforest, Fordlandia, but circumstances left it ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

Most small-scale gold mining operations separate gold from ore by adding liquid mercury and then burning the mixture, ...

Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. Its “golden” ...

The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane highway - Avenida Liberdade - through the protected Amazon rainforest has ...

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...