The Amazon rainforest is able to endure decades of intense drought. Doing so means losing many trees, releasing stored carbon into the air.

Aquariums are great for families as they offer a unique blend of education, excitement and opportunities for bonding.

The city is located nearly 930 miles (1,500km) from the nearest ocean and its population has doubled since 1990.

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study suggests.

What consequences could the Amazon rainforest face as climate change continues to worse worldwide? This is what a recent ...

What would happen if we completely lost the Amazon rainforest to the fires?

Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.

For the first time, the G20 group of the world’s biggest economies has reached a multilateral agreement on principles to ...

Brazil captivates many travelers, yet most visitors stick to familiar hotspots like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

Scientists have known for some time now that tropical birds are falling in number. In general, the cause has been attributed ...

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are far more likely to follow laws prohibiting the purchase of cattle from ...