The Amazon rainforest is able to endure decades of intense drought. Doing so means losing many trees, releasing stored carbon into the air.

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

The longest rivers in the world stretch over thousands of kilometres. From the Amazon to the Nile, they are crucial to human ...

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are far more likely to follow laws prohibiting the purchase of cattle from ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day ...

A video recently caught netizens' attention and took their breath away. It showed an enormous anaconda moving slowly through ...

Earlier in April, a never-before-seen species of anaconda was discovered in the Amazon rainforest during the shooting of a ...

After almost 100 years on planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough marks his birthday today with a stark warning that the oceans ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil—With little fanfare and virtually no publicity, lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondonia have passed legislation in favor of hundreds of cattle ranchers who had illegally ...

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture.