A winter storm is moving out of the San Diego area Friday but brought much-needed rainfall and gusty winds that led to some flooding and downed trees.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...

One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires contributing the most to the destruction of native dry forests. The problem ...

Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is home to more than 20 million people and has been in the news many times due to ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil's Amazon, the ...

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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil´s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pressing the country's environmental regulator to approve exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, defending the ...

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

A collective work titled "Archaeology of the Amazon" offers a broad overview of traces left by thirteen millennia of human ...

Brazil's president this week amped up pressure for a major oil project to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon River, despite ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...