The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has raised $100 million with its first Amazonia Bond to tackle deforestation and ...

Everland has secured Letters of Intent totaling US$ 160M from companies seeking to purchase carbon credits from a new ...

By Constance Malleret Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, a sprawling industrial facility has been carved out of the rainforest.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 2:26, central, with additional reactions to Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the Amazon synod. "Injustice and crime." With those two words, Pope Francis ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Amazon rainforest, devastated by over 70,000 wildfires in 2019, is once again ablaze, threatening even greater destruction of wildlife, human ...

Pope Francis has highlighted the need for spiritual inculturation in the Amazon region, and praised indigenous expressions of religiosity, while pointing to the Eucharist as the central component of ...

The Amazon Basin is a spectacular and dynamic place. Its very name conjures images of verdant jungles, uncontacted tribes and natural splendor. But it also dredges up accounts of destruction, genocide ...

Pope Francis' post-synodal exhortation on the Amazon is part of the Church's ordinary magisterium -- that is officially a kind of Church teaching -- while the final document of the Vatican's 2019 ...