Brazil, the largest country in South America, boasts stunning beaches, the Amazon rainforest, and the famous Carnival festival. Visitors can marvel at Christ the Redeemer statue and explore the ...

Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River. Pink ...

Riverside forests help trees migrate between Amazon and Atlantic forests, shaping biodiversity over millions of years.

Speaking next to Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara from the Terra do Sol Indigenous Land, in the north of the country, Lula defended the demarcation of indigenous territories ...

In the early 20th century, the Amazon rainforest witnessed one of the bloodiest periods in its history, its rubber trees ...

This incredible river is the second-longest in Africa and is also the world's deepest river, with a measured depth of around ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

Plans to construct a sprawling port and railway line in Brazil’s northeastern state of Maranhão is sparking concerns among some residents and civil society groups about its potential impact on the ...

A new study has revealed how sudden cold waves impacts wildlife, including insects and mammals, in the Amazon rainforest.

BOGOTA, Colombia — (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can't forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...