Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to ...

A punishing drought has caused the lowest water levels in more than 100 years in the Amazon and its major tributaries.

Because of their privileged status as a transnational religious institution and their allegiance to the pope, the Jesuits enjoyed considerable autonomy from both the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.

Allax Melo, 23, had joined friends for the trip on the Araguia River near the village of Itxalá ... can be found in the Amazon, Essequibo and Orinico river basins in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia ...

Most of the Pan Amazonian population consists of immigrants or their descendants. They arrived over centuries, motivated by historical events that moulded their self-identity. This diverse assemblage ...

A FISHERMAN has tragically fallen off a boat to his death as he tried to reel in a monster catch. Allax Melo, 23, was fishing ...

Step inside the real estate portfolio of automotive pioneer Henry Ford, from the Ford Plantation in Georgia and Greenfield ...

In the Three Frontiers region, where Colombia borders Brazil ... village have found themselves staring out over a kilometer-wide (.6-mile) pop-up beach. Before the smaller of two branches of the ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...