Think the Amazon rainforest and the Sahara Desert are worlds apart? Think again. Scientists have only recently discovered the ...

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

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

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

As leaders gather in Brazil for COP30, an Amazonian journalist highlights the region’s people and stories of climate ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

In September 2021, a multidisciplinary expedition explored one of the least-known regions of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great ...

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon.

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

This week's donation builds on continuing IAEA support to expand breast cancer screening across the Amazon Basin. In 2023, under Rays of Hope, the Agency helped install mobile mammography systems on ...

A new generation of journalists emerges from the rainforest, just in time for COP30. Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Seated on the front bench of the voadeira, a motorized canoe taking us deeper ...