Just a few hundred feet from the Amazon River delta, Ivan Ferreira is converting used shipping containers into hotel rooms ...

Embrapa, the public agricultural research agency, is committed to combining livestock, crops, and trees to turn around a ...

The new rules, considered unconstitutional by experts, would benefit around 80% of the ventures with a self-licensing process ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

It was the opening salvo to New York’s Climate Week, where world leaders in business, politics and the arts gather to try to save the planet, highlighted by a new special United Nations summit ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

The CDC estimates some 8 million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America have the disease -- and most are ...

Brazil’s senate has passed a controversial bill weakening the country’s environmental regulations, opening the door for ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...