IN the modern age, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anywhere on Earth that we haven’t fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet ...

And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America. The references were tantalizing, but for those ...

The Congo Basin encompasses the world’s second largest rainforest, behind the Amazon ... Lewis led a team several years ago to map the extent of the Congo Basin peatlands.

The eight-mile stretch of new highway — dubbed Avenida Liberdade, or Avenue of Liberty — has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for world leaders to ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

As the northern Brazil city of Belem prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in November, a new BBC report has revealed ...

Brazil is facing accusations of hypocrisy after cutting down large sections of the Amazon rainforest to construct ... more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in ...

Illegal wildlife trafficking occurs in nearly 30% of worlds’ most protected areas. These include the World Heritage site Atsinanana Rainforest in Madagascar, threatened by the trade in rosewood and ...