By Carlos NobreIlona SzaboRobert Muggah The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s ...

Andean Parliament declares State of Emergency for Amazon Basin: meet the activist who made it happen. Earlier this month the Amazon Basin netted a necessary win - the Andean Parliament declared a ...

In the southern tip of Colombia’s Cauca department, known as the “boot” for its shoe-like shape, volunteer members of an ...

Forest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal burning of forests and pastures. Helicopter used in ...

The Madeira Basin has the most diverse fish life in the Amazon River Basin with 1,406 species catalogued, but human interference and the climate crisis are provoking a significant decline in fish ...

As human development increasingly encroaches on the Amazon, researchers find that the growing boundary between forests and ...

In October 2023, the Rio Negro at Manaus dropped to its lowest point since Brazilian authorities began measuring it in 1903.

BELEM, Brazil, July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen launched on Saturday a new effort with Amazon basin governments to disrupt illicit finance that fuels nature crimes, including ...

Petrobras PBR, the largest integrated oil and gas company in Brazil, launched an emergency drill in the Foz do Amazonas basin on Sunday, according to Reuters, signaling a key advancement in its effort ...