Months before COP30, Brazil's president Lula da Silva seeks the expedited approval of a controversial oil drilling project in ...

Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower ...

Whitley Award-winning biologist Fernanda Abra’s Reconecta Project is building canopy bridges across highways in Brazil to ...

In some Amazon rivers in Brazil, cases of diseases related to inadequate basic sanitation, such as malaria and acute diarrhea ...

Between November 2023 and October 2024, the Amazon rainforest faced yearly average temperature increases above 2 Celsius ...

From the weird to the wonderful, here's our roundup of animals you've never heard of before (and certainly won't forget in a ...

Paddington's in Peru! Here's what to pack and what to expect for your Amazon River cruise in Peru (and why you might not want ...

Atchafalaya Basinkeeper will host its ninth annual “Save the Basin” event to help bring together communities across South Central Louisiana to celebrate and support the Atchafalaya ...

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

An environmental education project promoted by the nonprofit Peabiru Institute gives students a chance to learn more about ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on conservation and improving livelihoods for Indigenous peoples and other rainforest ...