For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run ...

Pope Leo XIV has hands-on experience of navigating the Amazon. Many Catholics have said they believe Prevost’s experience as ...

This is the last of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their ...

Earlier this year, researchers discovered a new type of anaconda known as the Northern Green Anaconda. It was measured at a ...

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the ...

A new road in Belem, Brazil, set to open before COP30, is drawing criticism for cutting through rainforest and threatening ...

With its sprawling canopy and diverse flora and fauna, the Amazon rainforest makes for the best playground for adventure ...

A peculiar peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may not just be a geological oddity after all. The 1,310-foot-tall ...

Global demand for agricultural goods is increasingly being shaped by geopolitical forces like the ongoing trade war. Brazil's ...

a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city ...

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest ...