Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

The Amazon River is a natural wonder, flowing through one of the largest ecosystems on the planet, the Amazon Basin, which ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

Archaeologists in Peru’s Amazon have uncovered ancient ceremonial club heads, a rare zigzag frieze, and more than 200 structures.

Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

The Boiling River in Peru is a natural wonder. It reaches extreme temperatures. Locals use it for daily needs. Scientist ...

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in ...

One of the new species was discovered in an unusual and “very difficult” to access location near the Rio Purus, a tributary of the Amazon River.

Scientists discover two new Priocharax miniature tetra fish species, one of which is mostly translucent, in Brazil’s Amazon basin in blackwater systems.

For the past 16 years, I served as a Commissioned Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development ...