Embarking on an expedition into the Amazon Basin might sound intimidating, but for retirees and older travelers, an Amazon ...

The study was the first to analyze a large set of independently published studies. Researchers sound alarm after making ...

Plastic may well be a useful everyday item, but its careless disposal in oceans and inland waterways is a pressing global ...

The initiative began in Ecuador's Amazon and has since expanded to Brazil, Peru, Suriname, and even the Solomon Islands. Each ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across ...

Plastic pollution is so widespread in the Amazon that it’s turning up in fish, birds, manatees, and even remote streams far ...

This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world ...

Forest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal burning of forests and pastures. Helicopter used in ...

Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras (PETR3. RA), was denied a license to drill in the Foz do Amazonas basin on a regulatory ...

Mercury contamination comes mainly from illegal gold mining and forest clearing that wash mercury that naturally occurs in ...