Amazon Rainforest

Eraldo Peres/AP

Satellite appears to show new highway cutting through Brazil's Amazon rainforest

  • Mar 12, 2025
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Biden makes historic visit to the Amazon rainforest

  • Nov 17, 2024
0:16

Dramatic rescue in the Amazon

Five people were pulled to safety after spending nearly two days on top of a plane after it made an emergency landing in a swamp in Bolivia.

  • May 3, 2025
Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest

  • Sep 19, 2024
Lourival Izaque, STR via AFP via Getty Images

What officials say is causing the record-breaking wildfires in Brazil

  • Sep 14, 2024

'Out of control' fires ravage the Amazon region

  • Sep 10, 2024

Images released of uncontacted Amazon rainforest tribe in Peru seen near logging site

  • Jul 18, 2024

Colombian children rescued in Amazon rainforest

  • Jun 10, 2023

Extraordinary journey into the Amazon to discover new species

  • Apr 22, 2022

Latest Videos

1:23

How burning of Amazon rainforest affects animals

  • Nov 1, 2021
9:50

Catching illegal loggers deep in the Amazon with ‘Guardians of the Amazon’: Part 1

  • Feb 19, 2020
6:57

Indigenous ‘Guardians’ targeted after trying to protect their land: Part 2

  • Feb 19, 2020
2:07

Preview of ABC News documentary ‘Guardians of the Amazon’

  • Feb 15, 2020
3:26

Amazon fires create respiratory issues for people of Brazil

  • Aug 28, 2019
1:11

How did the Brazilian wildfires become so devastating?

  • Aug 28, 2019
2:22

Amazon fires spark concerns over air quality

  • Aug 28, 2019
0:23

Bolsonaro promises 'solution' to 'give the world satisfaction' as Amazon fires rage

  • Aug 27, 2019
5:52

Growing environmental crisis in the Amazon as fires are still ablaze

  • Aug 27, 2019
6:56

Amazon rainforest on fire: ‘Lungs of the world’ in flames

  • Aug 27, 2019
Playlist ·  10 Videos

Latest Stories

Amazon rainforest lost area the size of Israel in 2020

Despite the devastation of the 2019 fires in Brazil, ones in 2020 were worse.

  • Feb 5, 2021

Deep in the Amazon, armed tribesmen fight illegal loggers for their future — and ours

The "Guardians of the Forest" have taken up arms against the "invaders."

  • Feb 14, 2020

Pope Francis, climate change experts, religious leaders meet about the Amazon

Over 200 bishops, indigenous leaders and experts gather in the Vatican.

  • Oct 10, 2019

One of the world's largest retailers bans Brazilian leather after Amazon fires

H&M wants to be "absolutely certain" that its leather isn't linked to fires.

  • Sep 6, 2019

Experts explain how the Amazon wildfires became so devastating

"Lungs of the World" and its millions of species are at risk of harm.

  • Aug 28, 2019