Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

The urgent message was delivered to Brazilian officials during annual U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, and includes new ...

The journalist should not be part of the story.” Jonathan Watts, British journalist based in Brazil, recalls the words of ...

"Sometimes people ask me, 'Hey, Doc, what scares you more than anything else?' And often they’re surprised when I say yellow ...

The ambitious move, if successful, could be a turning point in the struggle to halt the destruction of the world's largest rainforest.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alessandra Sampaio, journalist Dom Phillips' widow, and Jonathan Watts, Phillips' friend and colleague, about finishing the book Phillips was writing when he was killed.

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

Booming global demand for beef may be bad news for the planet, but it’s been wonderful for shareholders in JBS. The Brazilian company is by far the world’s biggest meat producer, with annual sales ...

The Tampa Bay area has its first Brazilian “boteco,” the South American equivalent of a pub or Spanish taberna that is a cozy ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...