A researcher’s quest to preserve tracts of the Amazon basin leads him into wild adventure.

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

In August 2024, a wildfire broke out in Acará, a rural municipality in Brazil’s eastern Amazon state of Pará. Local civil ...

Are you sick of watching your Social Security check disappear faster than a snowflake in July? With the average monthly ...

With preliminary damage estimates already nearing $10 million following severe flooding last month, Montana officials have submitted a request to the federal government for more financial help.

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods ...

In the Gran Chaco Region, which stretches into both Paraguay and Bolivia, the Ayoreo tribe shows what happens when outsiders ...

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender. The rare case, which is due ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest against deforestation. Many of the trees cut down or ...