Air pollution across the vast Amazon rainforest — commonly nicknamed Earth’s “lungs” — is actually worse than some of the world’s biggest cities, new data shows. The Amazon’s 50 million residents are ...

In the remoteAmazon rainforest, trees are becoming unexpected sentinels against environmental destruction caused by illegal gold mining. New research shows that mercury pollution, a toxic byproduct of ...

According to research published in the journal Ambio, plastic fragments have been found in wildlife and water across all nine Amazonian countries. As Mongabay observed, microplastics are appearing ...

Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire ...