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 ...

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

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.

Slaughterhouses that agreed to a settlement with Brazilian prosecutors were far more likely to obey environmental laws banning the purchase of cattle from illegally ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have uncovered fossil evidence of an endangered tropical tree species for the very ...

J ane Fonda has always been one to stand up for what she believes in. With a lifetime of activism under her belt, the ...

The Cerrado, stretching across 2 million square kilometers of Brazil, is the largest and most diverse savanna in. It’s often ...