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 ...

A new report by the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center has ...

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

Miraña, spoken by just 170 people, is one of the indigenous languages that is in danger of disappearing in Colombia.

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

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

Researchers are calling for a more reliable approach to understanding water-related hazards by explicitly accounting for ...

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.

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in which the construction of roads and agricultural expansion led to ...

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