The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five ...

Brightly-hued scarlet macaws are among the many birds of the Amazon Basin. (Courtesy photo) The spectacular birds and ...

In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had previously mostly escaped the rampant plunder of other areas.

In a room at the back of her house, Vera Alves da Silva Oliveira keeps the air-conditioning on day and night to protect bags of seeds gathered by hand from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and Cerrado ...

Enhancing the lives we live and the world we share is more than just a commitment; it’s a call to action,” said Ashley Barrie ...

An annual report projecting key political pressure points for 2026 lists cross-boundary water disputes as a growing global concern. ● After heavy rains forced hundreds of evacuations across Albania, ...

By Rafael Spuldar Alessandra Moreira worked as an administrative assistant in Altamira, an oversized municipality in the ...

As the government weighs up whether to approve extraction at the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, we can reveal that the ...

From sudden flash floods to slow-onset famines, this year revealed how climate-driven disasters are becoming more frequent, more intense and harder to recover from. Governments and aid agencies were ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...

Venezuelan tarantulas have adapted to fill many different ecological niches. Learn more about the nearly 50 spiders native to ...