President Joe Biden is visiting the Amazon rainforest today, becoming the first U.S. president to do so. It’s part of a wider South American trip that began with Biden meeting with leaders of the Asia ...

U.S. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Brazilian Amazon on Nov. 17, where he pledged $50 million for the state-led Amazon Fund to help conserve the world’s largest and most biodiverse ...

Watch out for that tree, Joe of the Jungle! President Biden walked into the jungle Sunday, becoming the first sitting commander-in-chief to set foot in the Amazon rainforest as he pledged to “fight ...

Canopy cranes, once reserved for treetop research, let you see the “eighth continent” like an arbornaut. Morning mist hovers above the canopy in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, one of the richest ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...