In his four-hour visit to Manaus, in northern Brazil, Joe Biden met with Indigenous leaders and committed an additional $50 million to a Brazil-administered fund to protect the Amazon rainforest. As ...

Biden said the fight against climate change has been a defining cause of his presidency — he’s pushed for cleaner air, water ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday becomes the first U.S. president to visit the Amazon, sometimes called the 'lungs of the planet ...

Santiago Yahuarcani's visual vocabulary is neither derivative nor dependent on Western art history. His paintings-including ...

Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) carefully cultivates a public image of environmental and social ...

As the COP29 climate talks started Monday in Azerbaijan, an Indigenous leader half a world away is literally towering over ...

Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth’s ...

dacnis, pays tribute to Project Dacnis, a conservation, research and education NGO that maintains private areas of the Atlantic Rainforest, including the one where the animal was found ...

Archeologists analyzing stretches of the Amazon using LIDAR have discovered a long-lost Portuguese colony in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Experts found geometric shapes—possibly denoting ...

AN ANCIENT city that was abandoned in the 18th century has finally been unearthed deep inside the Amazon rainforest. Located in the modern Brazilian state of Rondônia, the Portuguese settlement ...

Extensive cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or grow soy are driving deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. A number of meat packers signed commitments with prosecutors in ...

Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.