:: "This type of event has been occurring throughout the seven provinces of our region of Amazonas. The fires have affected about 53,000 hectares (130,965 acres) so far, but we still need to quantify ...

Starting May 8th, one of the most ambitious adventure races ever created in South America will take athletes deep into ...

Now a story about the mighty Amazon rainforest that isn't about its biodiversity or threats from climate change. It's about opera. Yeah, deep in the Amazon sits a century-old Renaissance theater ...

The Bolivian Amazonas is a breathtaking region of untouched rainforest, where calm rivers wind through dense tropical vegetation. This remote part of the Amazon offers a peaceful and immersive natural ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that ...

Thick smoke has enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a city of 2 million, air quality ...

Amid an extreme, unprecedented drought, almost all major Amazon rivers have registered their lowest levels in history. Experts say the outlook for the next months is even worse, putting researchers on ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as part of a ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One of the world’s largest rivers and a major tributary of the Amazon, the yawning Rio Negro is a pillar of the ...