The city is located nearly 930 miles (1,500km) from the nearest ocean and its population has doubled since 1990.

As the northern hemisphere blazes under the summer sun, the south offers a cool alternative. Ski, hike, encounter wildlife, ...

It is another steamy morning in Puerto Maldonado, and Gabriel Granados Olivera and I are sitting on a low-slung motorized ...

It's eleven hundred tributaries drain the greatest river basin on the planet,(an area of more than two million square miles), and along its incredible journey it collects and transports one fifth of ...

Brazil captivates many travelers, yet most visitors stick to familiar hotspots like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

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

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

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

Scientists at the Missouri Botanical Garden are preserving diverse plant species. And, how micronutrients could help address world hunger.

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

Long-term drought could cause ‘profound change’ in Amazon rainforest – study - Researchers believe climate change may cause ...

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are ...