Amazon rainforest

Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest.

Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and the protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said the world faces a stark choice warning world leaders to stop "treating nature as a toilet".

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Friday called for greater international cooperation to protect the Amazon through the sustainable use of biodiversity in the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Seven of the 10 biggest floods in the Amazon basin have occurred in the past 13 years, data from Brazil’s state-owned Geological Survey shows.