Oil, gas and coal cause three-quarters of global emissions. Why are they nowhere to be seen on the Belém climate summit's ...

The Amazon Rainforest, a colossal ecosystem brimming with biodiversity ... Green Anaconda, eunectes murinus, Los Lianos in Venezuela. Image via Depositphotos. The newly identified snake boasted a ...

Latin America is a geographical, geopolitical, and cultural concept defined by the common characteristics of some of the ...

A new report has found that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon store more aboveground carbon than the ...

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

This is the last of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their ...

Recently, a gigantic anaconda was spotted deep in the Amazon rainforest. A video has gone viral on social media showing the enormous snake swimming through a canal in the forest, as seen from a ...

A strange peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may actually be the largest pyramid ever built in the ancient world. Known as Cerro El Cono, this massive, pyramid-shaped formation is cloaked ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

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

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 ...

lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondonia have passed legislation in favor of hundreds of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new ...