“The Amazon is a magnet,” he says. Passionate about the forest, he sought out any opportunity to work in the region, until he was able to study jaguars. Initially, Brito was only responsible ...

An eight-mile stretch of protected Amazon rainforest has been felled to make space for a new four-lane highway in time for the COP30 climate summit. Drone footage and images have revealed thick ...

The president says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it.

The Amazon rain forest covers more than two million square miles of the earth's surface, spanning eight South American countries. Although the region has no seasons, the Amazon River rises and ...

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The thing about walking along the Amazon is that one often has to get ... What they’d hoped would be high ground was mostly flooded forest. At times they traveled less than a half a mile an ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...

“Their stuff was floating.” Trask had her home flooded in Tampa’s Forest Hills community, even though she was in flood zone X. “They said Forest Hills was a no flood zone, so what happened ...

As many as a hundred Awá still live as nomads in the Amazon forest, despite increasing pressure ... Settlers and land speculators flooded in. Cattle ranches, factories, and even entire cities ...