Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this frame from video provided by Survival International, Dabi Nishida, of the Yine Indigenous group, maneuvers a boat near a ...

Johan Eliasch, a Swedish-British billionaire better known for building a global sportswear empire, made an unexpected move in 2005. He bought around 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil, not ...

Authorities from five Amazon countries arrested hundreds in a major crackdown on environmental crime ...

Hundreds of people have been arrested across the Amazon this month in a sweeping five-country law enforcement operation going ...

Now, researchers warn another “Super” El Niño could doom the Amazon rainforest. “The southern Amazon is close to a tipping ...

A campaign to protect one of the world's most important rainforests took an unexpected turn when conservationist Paul Rosolie ...

Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru's Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign ...