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

"This effort is part of a comprehensive strategy." Authorities break up massive criminal operation in Amazon rainforest: 'A ...

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

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the seizure of more than $64 million in illicit assets ...

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

Often described as the "lungs of the planet," the Amazon basin is twice the size of India, covering around 40% of the South American continent.

Forest fires have consumed tens of millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and illegal burning of forests and pastures.

Woods Hole Research Center. "Impact of land use activity in the Amazon basin evaluated." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 January 2012. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 01 / 120118173701.htm>.

October 21, 2013 / 1:44 PM EDT / CBS News New research shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin.

It's the Amazon," said University of Texas-Austin professor Edgardo Latrubesse, who led the study. "We have to put the risks on the table and change the way people are looking at the problem.