Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, scientists have documented microplastics in frog tadpoles living in the wild Amazon rainforest — and the ...

Plastic pollution is widespread across the Amazon Rainforest’s rivers, plants and animals, according to a recent study. Previous research suggests up to 10% of total plastics in the ocean arrive there ...

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds ...

Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Amazon Project (MAAP) analyzed the environmental and economic impact of three local communities in the Madre Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon, where gold ...

The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, has long been thought of as a refuge from human-made pollution. But recent research is shattering that idea. Microplastics, tiny plastic ...

For the first time, scientists have documented microplastics in frog tadpoles living in the wild Amazon rainforest — and the contamination showed up in every single pond and every single tadpole they ...