Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...

In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had previously mostly escaped the rampant plunder of other areas.

Brightly-hued scarlet macaws are among the many birds of the Amazon Basin. (Courtesy photo) The spectacular birds and ...

By Jenny Gonzales An inhabitant of the Amazon Basin and one of the world’s largest freshwater fishes, the pirarucu (Arapaima ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war. Santa ...

Indigenous leaders representing more than 511 peoples from the Amazon Basin met in Brasília to discuss the solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis, ...

A transboundary Indigenous peoples’ alliance has been working in Ecuador and Peru to protect the Amazon Basin in the face of climate change impacts. Indigenous people, who have sacred connections with ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when ...

The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak through a flooded forest. A kayak tour trailing through a sea of trees in the ...