Chile is facing a severe wildfire emergency marked by unusually large and fast-moving fires that have killed people, ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

Most proven reserves are located in the Orinoco Oil Belt, stretching over 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) ...

Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

U.S. forests have stored more carbon in the past two decades than at any time in the last century, an increase attributable ...

The Amazon rainforest stretches for millions of kilometers, hiding ancient tribes, animals and maybe something else. What if ...

The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are still learning new things about it every year, and what’s already known is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the southeastern Colombian department of Vaupés, members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community have maintained a healthy territory through ...

A study has revealed that humanity's footprint in the Amazon rainforest is reshaping the forest in ways scientists didn't expect — altering its deep evolutionary history and disrupting how the ...