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As gold prices surge, illegal mining in South America is destroying forests and polluting rivers. However, women miners in ...
The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...
ESA/M.PedoussautThis space probe will soon be sent into orbit to help scientists uncover the health of our world’s densest ...
Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...
Storm forecasting is traditionally based on studying atmospheric conditions, but research that also looks at land surface ...
See All Key Ideas Deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco ... and are believed to be the last uncontacted people in South America outside of the Amazon. Their last contact with the outside ...
Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel ...
The number of bobcat sightings reported to Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection rose to more than ...
Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an ...
Strengthening U.S.-Brazil AI cooperation could ease domestic energy strain, support tech growth, and counter China’s ...
The páramo covers slopes above 10,000 feet in elevation all over the Andes Mountains, and acts like a giant sponge absorbing ...