Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Both US supermajors have snapped up acreage in the emerging, environmentally sensitive Brazil play as they continue building ...

Researchers found human and animal remains inside, suggesting complex funerary rituals of an unknown Amazonian culture.

JUSTYNA GUDZOWSKA is Executive Director of The Sentry. Previously, she worked on sanctions and countering the financing of ...

The Amazon rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” is not only a sanctuary for an incredible array of flora and fauna but is also home to one of the world’s most renowned and ...

This difference in worldview is at the heart of peacebuilding in Putumayo and the Indigenous struggle to reclaim ancestral territories across the Amazon basin. Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the ...

Abel Rodríguez, Amazon Basin Artist and Plant Expert, Has Died The Nonuya (Indigenous Colombian) painter was revered for his bright ink-on-paper renderings of the region’s lush flora and fauna ...

Visit a potato farm in the Columbia Basin, make a savory waffle at Cafe Flora in Seattle.

The Andes, currently the world’s longest continental mountain range, started to rise roughly 45 million years ago, though the most significant uplift likely occurred between 10 and 20 million years ...

Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest, spanning approximately 5.5 million square kilometres. (Image: Getty) GK, General Knowledge: Forests act as the lungs of the world, absorbing carbon ...

On 4 October, as we approached the Mipaya gas site, in the midst of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, the whirr became increasingly noticeable. “It is the noise of the flare that is used to burn gas,” ...

Forest fires have consumed tens of millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and illegal burning of forests and pastures.