Once a sink for greenhouse gases, the rainforest, converted to farmland by slash-and-burn agriculture, is fast becoming a source of them. What is driving the deforestation? A turn away from Bolivia’s ...

There are signs that policy can make a difference.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers serve as highways and entire communities sit days away from the nearest ...

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is an ...

What you didn't know about Mennonites, soy, and Bolivia.

Protestors demonstrating against the Bolivian government near the Scottish Event Campus, the venue of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in 2021. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty ...

Indigenous leaders representing more than 511 peoples from the Amazon Basin met in Brasília to discuss the solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis, ...

When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country’s deforestation and fires – concerns reached a ...