U.S. oil companies are shifting investments south. Exxon and Chevron have piled into the Foz do Amazonas basin—part of the ...

Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees ...

Parts of South America are experiencing abnormally hot temperatures – despite being in the depths of winter – as the combination of human-caused climate change and the arrival of El Niño feed ...

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

The extreme heat is expected to continue across parts of South America well into this week, with the potential for more records to be broken. “More of the same – or worse – is unavoidable ...

South America has been hit by a series of heatwaves since last year. "We never had winter," said Karla Longo, an air quality researcher at Inpe, of the weather in Sao Paulo in recent months.

It’s the middle of winter in South America, but that hasn’t kept the heat away in Chile, Argentina and surrounding locations. Multiple spells of oddly hot weather have roasted the region in ...

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America.

South America is filled with mammals from North America, but why more didn’t survive the reverse trip has been a natural history mystery. Share full article. 12.

Millions of years ago, North American mammals flooded South America after the two continents joined. But South American mammals failed to return the favor, and now scientists have an idea why. A ...

In South America, most women’s leagues were either founded or turned professional only within the last several years. In some cases, the option to play was through limited competitions over the ...

Parts of South America are experiencing abnormally hot temperatures – despite being in the depths of winter – as the combination of human-caused climate change and the arrival of El Niño feed ...