Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of the world's diet originating from these lush, tropical areas. Here is a ...

Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil's lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ecosystems, including the Amazon. "Tapirs move ...

Discover fascinating animals in South America, from the largest rodent to the apex predator. Explore unique South American ...

Let’s take a look at the most common animals in the stunning Amazon Rainforest. This post was updated on June 16, 2025 to include information on the newly discovered Ranitomeya aetherea . 1.

Destruction of the Amazon rainforest to the north is exacerbating drought in the Pantanal over the long term, said Philip Fearnside, an ecologist at Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research.

Brazilian rainforest fires are blazing out of control by the thousands. In an alarming new report, a staggering 6,803 fires raged in July, nearly 1,300 more than July 2019, according to the Nationa… ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For the first time in 14 years, presidents of the South American nations home to the Amazon rainforest are converging to chart a common course for protection of the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke. Preliminary figures from the Federal ...

An aerial view of logs cut from Amazon rainforest near of the road BR-319 highway in city of Realidade, Amazonas state, Brazil, on August 22, 2019. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters ...

Brazil has proposed a new $250 billion mechanism for conserving the world’s tropical rainforests. The “Tropical Forests Forever” fund, sourced from governments and the private sector, would ...

The world’s three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia on Monday formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation after a decade of on ...