Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

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

We must move beyond viewing forests as mere carbon sinks or timber sources. They are living, breathing climate regulators, ...

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

Around the world, families are seeing higher food prices linked to more extreme weather, which is being driven by rising ...

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

Archaeologists in Peru’s Amazon have uncovered ancient ceremonial club heads, a rare zigzag frieze, and more than 200 structures.

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

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.

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

For the past 16 years, I served as a Commissioned Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development ...