Pope Leo XIV has hands-on experience of navigating the Amazon. Many Catholics have said they believe Prevost’s experience as ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

The construction of a road is drawing attention in the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference in Brazil.

A new report adds to the already overwhelming case that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon Rainforest ...

Brazil's Supreme Court will allow the country's biggest farming state to withdraw tax incentives from signatories of the ...

What does the future hold for the next generation of people who live in the Amazon? We meet the indigenous teenagers trying to preserve their way of life and a ranching family who moved to the ...

Both are meccas for twitchers, but which of these once-in-a-lifetime destinations is first on your wish list? Our experts ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru’s territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one ...

Criminal groups are operating to smuggle illegal gold from the Brazilian Amazon into Venezuela ... from the muddy mining sites deep into the rainforest to refineries in Europe and Asia.

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most diverse and vibrant ecosystems on Earth, teeming with life and mystery. Hidden beneath its dense canopy lies a realm teeming with exotic beauty and lurking ...

The stunning Ecuadorian rain forest region where a man was lynched ... happened in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador's Amazon region, which is a popular eco-tourism area.