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

For nearly 20 years, Brazil's largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest -- the world's biggest -- wasn't grown ...

Some of the Amazon rainforest’s remotest reaches lie not in Brazil, but in Ecuador. A weeklong river cruise reveals the creatures, plants, and people that define this extraordinary region.

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the ...

The world’s largest buyers of Brazilian soy have announced a plan to exit from a landmark antideforestation agreement, the ...

Brazilian oil regulator ANP has told Petrobras that it cannot resume offshore drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin until it ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through ...

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there's a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...