Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost ...

Deforestation has long been a challenge for Brazil – where decades of over-farming and logging operations have taken a toll and seriously threatened the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous ...

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

Indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon warn that deforestation and drug trafficking will likely increase if USAID support ends due to Trump's decision. Osvaldo Muca, President of OPIAC (National ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also faces threats from deforestation, wildfires and illegal gold mining, Charvet said. Illegal fires to clear forest result in waves of ash ...

The Cross River State government has been called upon to reintroduce and enforce total ban on deforestation and illegal mining in the state. Environmentalists made the call in Calabar, the state ...

Stoppe purchased wide swathes of the Amazon and spun up a program whereby he would protect land at risk of deforestation in exchange for carbon credit revenue. Companies like GOL Airlines, Nestlé, ...