The world’s largest snake has recently been discovered in the Amazon rainforest. This new species of northern green anaconda ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the “lungs of the Earth,” extends across nine South American countries and covers ...

“The pied tamarin has a very small range that sits in the eye of the storm of the Amazon.” The recently decreed Pied Tamarin Wildlife Refuge joins five other forested areas, including a military ...

"This alters the dynamics of the ecosystem. The Amazon Rainforest is sensitive to changes. Prolonged droughts reduce humidity and increase tree mortality, which unbalances everything else. Long floods ...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by indigenous people ...

With this fair treatment philosophy being a tent-pole of his success in the US, Henry Ford set his sights on a dramatically ambitious project in the Amazon jungle that combined his business ...

SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest ...

Nearly 70 percent of these Amazon blocks are either still under study or available for market bidding, meaning they remain unproductive. In contrast, 60 percent of around 2,250 South American blocks ...

CHURCH leaders in Latin America have delivered an urgent message to the Brazilian government on the plight of the Amazon rainforest. The COP30 climate talks are to be held in Brazil this year. Nearly ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...