It's eleven hundred tributaries drain the greatest river basin on the planet,(an area of more than two million square miles), and along its incredible journey it collects and transports one fifth of ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

Scientists have known for some time now that tropical birds are falling in number. In general, the cause has been attributed ...

The longest rivers in the world stretch over thousands of kilometres. From the Amazon to the Nile, they are crucial to human ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

In the heart of the dense Amazonian jungle, researchers are realizing that what was long believed to be an untouched ...

A recent ruling by Brazil's Supreme Court could help protect the Amazon from illegal deforestation and wildfires.

Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have ...

A settlement involving federal prosecutors and Brazilian meat packers has helped wean much of the country's beef supply chain ...

The tiny amphibian, observed in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon, is the first such discovery in a decade.