Known as the ‘gateway to the Amazon’ due to its location on the mouth of the Pará River, part of the Amazon River system, ...

Brazil lost 400 thousand hectares of water surface in 2024. The country’s territory covered by water bodies and reservoirs ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

By Maxwell Radwin Deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, driven largely by agribusiness and infrastructure development, ...

Marcos Colón’s book, grounded in the experiences of Indigenous communities, examines how the institutional violence of Jair ...

These historical trade arteries connect cities and castles, palaces and pagodas and they provide easy transport routes ...

Water-rich Brazil becoming ever drier, report warns Brazil is home to 12 percent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and ...

With COP30 in the Amazon, governments, businesses and funders must step up restoration finance and invest in forests ...

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.