The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in ...

The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

Parkinson’s disease patients are seeing their symptoms alleviated thanks to a well-known martial art. Capoeira is a movement practice that originated within the large enslaved communities in Brazil, ...

A viral video captures a man fearlessly handling a green anaconda, sparking online discussions about snake-handling ...

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

Culture of the Amazon Aerial view of the Amazon rain forest, South America. Image by gustavofrazao via Depositphotos According to the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA ...

Wildfires devastated the Amazon basin in 2024 They wiped away all progress governments had made to curb deforestation in recent years ...

Igor Cavallini Johansen, professor in the demography department of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), said: “We must reckon with the persistent inequalities created by large hydropower dams - ...

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested.

The Nonuya (Indigenous Colombian) painter was revered for his bright ink-on-paper renderings of the region’s lush flora and fauna and his wealth of inherited knowledge.

Across countries in the Amazon Basin corruption remains a deeply entrenched phenomenon as society has a higher tolerance of fraudulent behavior. Corruption encompasses many types of behavior ...

Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large human population before Europeans arrived. Dr Lombardo is head of a team proving them wrong.