Peat was found in unexpected ecosystems, such as nutrient-poor white-sand forests, widespread in northern South America ... Basin in Peru was only recognized as the largest peatland in the Amazon ...

Researchers found that just 10% of people – those living in high-income households – are responsible for 48% of global ...

Despite facing existential threats, unarmed Indigenous guards are struggling to reclaim ancestral lands and end oil drilling in the Amazon.

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

In parts of South America, croplands near small-scale mines face additional risks. In the Amazon basin, deforestation and informal gold mining contribute to mercury releases. Forests act as ...

Exhibitions and discoveries await in New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and on the East End of Long Island.

In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South America’s oldest rock art ... The Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in Peru ...

Discover how the weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the Last Interglacial impacted the North ...

Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented ... previously been documented in South America. Winton's team described ...

To reach America’s northernmost city (pop ... From the air, with its clouds and mist, it looked, oddly enough, more like the Amazon basin than the desert that one of Lenters’ colleagues ...