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 ...

An AI-generated image of a straight divide between a city and a verdant forest has been shared thousands of times around the globe in posts that falsely claimed it was a photo of where the Brazilian ...

Illegal gold mining in Indigenous Brazilian territories declined under President Lula, but challenges remain, Greenpeace report says.

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.