If somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of the forest were lost, models suggested, much of the Amazon would perish. About 18 percent of the rainforest ... cattle ranching, trees are dying off ...

The Amazon region holds the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is home to plant and animal species that are still being discovered by scientists. Most of its millions of square ...

"Whenever oil companies — or any type of extractivist company — come, they bring diseases. We are condemned with sicknesses, ...