Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Brazil's been enduring severe water shortages, from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. Here's what the South American country is getting wrong.

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat” — marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

Images captured by astronauts reveal a rare atmospheric phenomenon and help uncover the electrical secrets of the upper atmosphere ...

As a top fighter in the Featherweight division, Diego Lopes is one to watch in the UFC today. Born in Manaus in the Amazon ...

It's a win-win, and it's why everything on iStock is only available royalty-free — including all Amazon Rainforest images and footage. What kinds of royalty-free files are available on iStock? How can ...

Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire's 1,600-strong community has a two-pronged approach to defending its ancestral homeland: conducting patrols against intruders and teaching Indigenous youth to ...

You don't need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon's most famous resident ... large single-crop farms of soybean or ...

In brief: Just when you think Amazon couldn't possibly find another way to sell you stuff, the company comes up with something else: shopping links embeded in your photo library images.