Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights. (AP Video by Fernando Crispim.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate ...

A young, isolated Indigenous man from the Amazon Rainforest approached locals around 7 p.m. on Wednesday. AP Footage obtained by The Associated Press shows him barefoot and wearing a small ...

Drone footage published by the BBC shows new cleared trees along an 8-mile stretch of what will become the new highway. MORE: Brazil experiencing record-breaking wildfires as persistent drought ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions ...

In 2023 there were 98,639 wildfires in the Amazon alone. The Amazon rainforest, too, accounts for a significant portion (51.94%) of wildfires in the Brazilian biomes. In recent years, this area ...

Findings, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Remote Sensing, report a 93% success rate when training the model via a dataset of images of Amazon rainforest with, and without ...

The world’s largest water lily with giant floating leaves and fragrant white flowers, blooming only at night. An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator ...

Amazon Rainforest Dieback The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," is teetering on the edge of a critical tipping point. Prolonged droughts and rampant deforestation are ...