His "Green City" plan aims to halt illegal deforestation through a mix of enforcement, creation of the Amazon's only local environmental police force, and promotion of an economy that doesn't rely ...

The world’s largest snake has recently been discovered in the Amazon rainforest. This new species of northern green anaconda (Eunectes akiyama) differs by as much as 5.5 percent from the ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth. The Amazon in South America is the largest tropical forest in the world, spanning over 6.7 million square kilometres. To put its sheer size in ...

This massive achievement secures protection and sends a signal to the world that protecting nature is happening ...

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers Launched in 2000 by Brazilian and British scientists, Esecaflor, is the longest-running project ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has confirmed a case of Theileriosis, caused by Theileria orientalis ...

The discovery, made in a remote village in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest interior, included seven urns, two of which were larger ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest rainforest and river system, and the most biologically diverse place on earth. It covers roughly 40% of South America, spanning Brazil, Bolivia, Peru ...

Amazon has officially announced that Prime Day 2025 will take place from July 8 through July 11. That’s four full days of ...

4. Green Iguana. Although there is a vast array of animals in the Amazon, the largest and most common lizard you might encounter is the green iguana which can be as much as six feet long. Despite ...

Amazonian leaders have called on Scotland not to rely on illegal logging to build the turbines for the world’s largest ...