In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil's Amazon, according to the country's Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses.

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

Visitors to the Amazon who expect a "Discovery Channel-like experience" with "jaguars in every tree" and "anacondas on every shore" will be disappointed, Lonely Planet said. Instead, the ...

A hemisphere away, the Amazon rainforest continues to reel from its worst fire season in the past two decades — amplified by the region’s worst drought on historical record. While distant from ...

“The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy ...

Firefighters battle the Franklin Fire on Dec. 10, 2024, next to a business along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.