Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

Petrobras PBR, Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant, has secured a key regulatory approval to initiate emergency response drills in the Foz do Amazonas basin, situated near the mouth of the Amazon ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

Around the world, families are seeing higher food prices linked to more extreme weather, which is being driven by rising ...

Petrobras has received authorization for a pre-operational assessment, moving closer to an exploration permit for an environmentally sensitive offshore region in the Amazon basin.

And the forest is home to rich indigenous cultures, including a number of “lost” or uncontacted peoples. All of that diversity, however, is under threat by human development in the Amazon Basin.

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

Sediments from the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the now lush Amazon basin was much drier during the last ice age. Between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, the Amazon River carried little more than ...

October 21, 2013 / 1:44 PM EDT / CBS News New research shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin.

The Brazilian Amazon has systematically been deforested, dammed and developed by the federal government, river basin by river basin. The most recent to be so developed was the Xingu watershed.