Brazil has struggled with water scarcity from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. Here's what the water-rich country is getting wrong.

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

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

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

An ongoing Brazilian government operation launched in February has removed between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal head of cattle ...

ExxonMobil plans a massive oil expansion in Guyana amid fears over an environmental disaster in the Amazon rainforest.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged by a record 3. 75 parts per million in 2024 — the fastest annual rise ...