Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions, putting some of the continent's most important ecosystems -- such as the Amazon rainforest and the Gran ...

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian ... Wildfires in the Amazon are choking swaths of South America with smoke, leading to evacuations ...

South America is a continent of breathtaking diversity, where ancient civilizations meet dynamic, modern cities. From the Amazon Rainforest and the Atacama Desert to the towering Andes Mountains ...

The roughly 2.3 million square miles of the Amazon Rainforest are spread across eight countries in South America. Close to two-thirds of the forest lies within Brazil, while the rest reaches into ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest rainforest and river system, and the most biologically diverse place on earth. It covers roughly 40% of South America, spanning Brazil, Bolivia ...

A record-breaking drought that is well into its second year is punishing much of South America, including the Amazon rainforest, upending lives and local economies and providing an alarming ...

The BR-319 is famed as one of South America's most challenging drives ... desolate stretches along its 900km course through the Amazon rainforest without a soul or settlement in sight.

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible ... This year, an extreme drought across South America has contributed to five million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon being burned ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.