The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading government cost reduction in the new administration, said the humanitarian agency, ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

By Timothy J. Killeen The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous ...

This is why they are listed among the top 10 endangered animals in the Amazon rainforest. In an unusual trait for brightly colored birds, both male and female macaws look alike. The Hyacinth Macaw, ...

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

S tudents in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law spent a week of their winter break in ...

We Will Be Jaguars’ is a journey through one Indigenous activist's life and the web connecting the Amazon to the fate of the world.

Alexis Damancio Silva recalls the severe drought in Puerto Narino, Colombia, last year. The Amazon River nearly dried up, affecting wildlife and agriculture. Silva hopes for US support to fund ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.