Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil's Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence.

By Amanda Magnani After two consecutive years of record-breaking droughts, the river levels in the Amazon Basin are slowly ...

The Boiling River regularly reaches 45C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest.

The Amazon River snakes around for at least 6,400 kilometers (3,977 miles), yet it is not crossed by a single bridge (at ...

Brazilian authorities Monday decreed a “state of water shortage” in the basins of five major rivers nationwide. The critical ...

This means that in 2024—a year when Rio Grande do Sul experienced the worst floods in its history—26% of Brazil’s territory ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil's Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent nonprofit organisation ...

Banner image: A pink river dolphin is found dead in an Amazon river. Image provided by Sea Shepherd Brazil.

Transportation of soybeans and corn on barges along the Brazilian Amazon's Tapajos River, which had been suspended in early ...

The record-breaking drought is taking a toll on Indigenous and other communities in Brazil, Colombia and Peru reliant on boat ...

The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has ...