An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has captured some stunning images of Earth showing flowing silver snakes ...

Make no mistake: If we lose the Congo Basin forests, the global fight against climate change will be set back by 15 to 20 ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to open the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a call for ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, ...

A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in ...

A team of Brazilian Greenpeace activists placed a 'Protect' banner on a newly emerged sandbank in the Solimoes River, spotlighting the severe droughts affecting the Amazon basin. The drought, ...

South America, from Brazil to Argentina - This continent contains some of the world’s most amazing natural landscapes, ...

This article explores how innovative technologies—such as interactive 3D mapping, augmented reality (AR), and immersive media ...

At the time, rainfall levels helped create a tropical rainforest-type environment with abundant vegetation. Animals came to the basins from both present-day Africa and South America, causing their ...

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases ...

By Shanna Hanbury The Amazon Rainforest’s main rivers are drying out due to an unprecedented drought exacerbated by climate ...