A company backed by US investors sold "deforestation-free" palm oil to the makers of Cheetos, Colgate and Pepsi. But its investors have ties to the company that cleared Amazonian rainforest for ...

The Massaco people inhabit a 421,000-hectare reserve in the state of Rondônia, near the border with Bolivia. They are named after the river that runs through their territory, but little is known about ...

The Brazilian city of Manaus is dogged by a reputation for danger, but it’s not quite the war zone some would have you ...

He’s describing the Boiling River in Peru’s Amazon Rainforest. “If you look at the heat index, everything says immediate danger of heat stroke.” The Boiling River gets its name from ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

Scientists have today announced the discovery of a species of lipstick vine completely new to science, from the depths of the Philippine rainforest ... the plant's flowers have a distinct pattern ...

By Liz Kimbrough “You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, a professor at the University of Miami, tells Mongabay. He’s describing ...

Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to about 10% of the world’s known species. This huge Tropical Rainforest ...

The study results suggest that, as soon as temperatures reach a certain point, plant life responds almost immediately. Getty Images As climate change warms the Amazon basin, the rainforest may ...

When you drive towards Peru's Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the rainforest ... in the Amazon could threaten the very functioning of many plants there, says Rodolfo Nóbrega ...

Discover the species that range from a blob-nosed fish to a snake named after Leonardo DiCaprio.