In his years as a Jesuit priest, including 15 among the Awajún and Wampis people in Peru's northern Amazonas region, Fr. Fernando Roca has seen the gradual degradation of tropical ecosystems, as ...

Smoke choked Earth’s lungs last year. Of the 51,000 square kilometres (an area the size of Costa Rica) of mature tropical forest destroyed in Latin America in 2024, wildfires accounted for 60%, a ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva legally recognized nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands on April 28, reversing policies enacted by his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right ...

During a field expedition to the "heart" of the Amazon basin in Brazil, researchers discovered two small fish in the region's tea-colored waters that were previously unknown to science. The first ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona analyzed 20 years of satellite data to understand how different Amazon forest ecosystems respond to drought. They found that variations in water-table depth, ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — One of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil’s geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated ...

Hydropower is the dominant source of energy in the Amazon region, the world's largest river basin and a hotspot for future hydropower development. However, a new study warns that in the coming decades ...

Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras could begin producing oil and gas in the Foz do Amazonas basin within seven to eight years if major reserves are confirmed, Chief Executive Magda Chambriard ...

In northern Bolivia, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, lies a savannah called the Llanos de Moxos. This is the stamping-ground of Umberto Lombardo, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

For weeks, we’ve seen headlines saying the Amazon rainforest is burning. But something unexpected happens when you map satellite data showing both the fires this year and those that have burned in the ...