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

The project aims to replenish over 1.3 billion litres of water in Maharashtra's Vaitarna basin every year once operational in ...

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

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

Brazil is home to the world’s largest concentration of uncontacted and isolated Indigenous communities. Although the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The construction of huge dams in the Amazon basin is threatening hundreds of rare and unique species. The flooding caused by the dam building can leave patches of isolated forest cut off from the ...

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.

Sediments from the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the now lush Amazon basin was much drier during the last ice age. Between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, the Amazon River carried little more than ...