Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, according to the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses ...

Claros warn that the world's largest rainforest is reaching a tipping point, beyond which it will largely disappear.

Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost ...

"I Am the Nature" poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature through the eyes of the Indigenous Achuar people.

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a mysterious river stays at near-boiling temperatures year-round, baffling scientists. How is this possible, and what forces are keeping it so hot? Discover the ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

In Brazil, USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on ...

After five years of planning, design, construction and animal acquisition, Caldwell Zoo‘s long-awaited Amazon River’s Edge ...

It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can't forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.