Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

She has been working in journalism for seven years. A Bolivian man was found alive after surviving a month in the Amazon rainforest with minimal supplies, according to multiple reports.

Adventurer describes going where nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest. Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea. More than 62,000 sq km ...

Impending loss of the Amazon rainforest due to deforestation has concerned scientists, activists, and citizens all over the globe. Natural habitats sustaining the region’s incomparable biodiversity ...

“It is a cruel irony that a highway destroying the Amazon rainforest is being built for a climate summit meant to protect it,” the Executive Coordinator of YouthNet Global, Sohanur Rahman, said in a ...

President Joe Biden pledged to mobilize $20 billion for the Amazon, but that promise remains unfilled. Now is the time to turn words into action by moving boldly on three fronts. New research has ...