Amazon Basin is the largest drainage basin in the world and one of Earth’s most essential natural systems. It sustains ...

River dolphins are some of the lesser-known, yet most endangered, dolphins in the world. Find out about the threats that they ...

The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

Red John is an established figure among the landowners and ranchers of the Brazilian Amazon. He is the one who helps clear ...

For years the Nile held the crown but new evidence is changing everything. One river may be longer than we ever realized ...

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a ...

In the Amazon, traditional communities and small producers use fire culturally. However, the main offenders in razing trees ...

Brazil police officials created a makeshift flotation device to help a shot jaguar struggling to swim, driving the big cat to ...

Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.” ...

This is where the crack is sold,” says Josiane Otaviano Guilherme, picking her way down a litter-strewn alley between the ...

Peru’s Indigenous Shawi people continue to contest a plan to build a highway through their territory in the country’s ...