Brazil is a land of captivating contrasts, where the wild Amazon meets the vibrant pulse of Rio, offering a rich mix of ...

The largest country in South America is a must-visit spot. From Iguazu Falls and the Amazon Rainforest to Carnaval and ...

Some of Colombia’s recent measures to preserve the Amazon drew inspiration from Brazil, which pioneered developing-world strategies to protect tropical forests and reduced deforestation rates by ...

Floating houses and boats stranded at the Negro River, Manaus, Brazil, on October 16, 2023, during the worst dry season of the last decades in the Amazon rainforest.

To get there, we start out on Brazil's highway 364, which runs along the southern part of the Amazon from the Peruvian border to the coastal state of São Paulo.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

A TOWERING mountain that rises suddenly from the flat Amazon rainforest is cloaked in mystery. Cerro el Cono, the steep pyramid-shaped rock, stands tall and alone – leading locals to believe … ...

In Brazil, deforestation in the northwest of the country’s Amazon — “the most intact portion of the Amazon Rainforest,” according to the study — is being worsened by the proposal to pave ...

In 2020, the Covid pandemic slowed down just about everything—save for deforestation of the Amazon. That year, Brazil lost almost 15 square miles of vegetation per day, equal to 24 trees every ...

The Amazon River's 4,000-mile (6,437 km) journey begins high in the Andes, according to the New World Encyclopedia.These mountains act as a wall blocking the warm, moist air moving in from the ...

A brush fire burning in February on a farm in Roraima, Brazil’s northernmost state. The fires in the Amazon are the result of a mix of extreme weather events and climate change, experts said.

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth. The Amazon in South America is the largest tropical forest in the world, spanning over 6.7 million square kilometres. To put its sheer size in ...