The Numbers Tell An Incredible Story The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with ...

Wealthy nations’ surging appetite for metals has fueled a flurry of plans to mine in wilderness around the world, including ...

The Amazon forest is losing its role as a carbon sink. Satellites reveal what this means for climate action worldwide.

The Brazilian government, through the environmental regulator IBAMA, has granted Petrobras a license for exploratory oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. Despite environmental and ...

Once completed, the initiative will deliver critical benefits to communities historically excluded from Brazil’s digital ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...

Battle over oil project that has raised hopes and concern looms large as COP30, the annual UN climate conference, begins in ...

Indigenous representatives from all nine Amazon Basin countries, gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima this week, pressed ...

For the Congo Basin and Borneo, these are the first-ever comprehensive scientific assessments, synthesizing knowledge across disciplines and regions. For the Amazon, this is the second assessment ...

Largest drainage basin: The world’s largest drainage basin is the Amazon Basin, located in South America. This immense basin covers an area of nearly 7 million square kilometers (2.7 million square ...

Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...