The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242 ...

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular ...

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...

Hyury Potter is one of the leading environmental investigative journalists in Brazil. A freelance reporter, he recently won ...

A Brazilian biologist is now working to make the rainforest safer for the many primate species that call it home, CNN ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on ...

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

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also an important regulator of weather ...