S moke 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% ...

Nonuya and Muinane sage and ecological artist Abel Rodríguez (Don Abel) died yesterday, April 9, as confirmed by his representing gallery Instituto de Visión.

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.

French banking groups Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and BPCE have been discreetly investing in the oil and gas industry accused of polluting the Amazon basin – despite their ecological pledges.

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

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways.

Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a continuing drought, the Brazilian Geological Service (SGB) says. The Madeira river, a major ...

The Amazon Basin has long been regarded as the lungs of the Earth.And if that’s true, then sadly, the planet has a bit of a smoking problem. Although the Amazon contains 123 billion tons of ...

BELEM, Brazil - 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 illegal ...

UAE-led Operation 'Green Justice' busts global criminal network in Amazon Basin, 25 arrested. Vast environmental crimes unearthed, illegal goods worth $32 million seized ...

In March 2024, our team published an article titled "A New Species of Piranha (Serrasalmus, Serrasalmidae) from de Upper Madeira River System, Amazon Basin, Bolivia" in the Journal of Ichthyology ...