Known as the ‘gateway to the Amazon’ due to its location on the mouth of the Pará River, part of the Amazon River system, Belém is a large access point from which to enter the mighty forest.

At normal water levels, the Delta is a broad and swampy forest, home to a maze of twisting rivers and creeks that braid together and split off from one another dozens of times. But When the flood ...

“The Amazon is extremely fundamental for the water system all over the continent,” said Villar from Greenpeace. “So if we cut off the forest we are some years not going to have rain on the ...

A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing for days after pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area have been found alive.Except for insect bites and ...

Dark skies over Sao Paulo this week were just a local hint of an unfolding global catastrophe centered in Brazil. This year, the Amazon rainforest is burning at unprecedented rates, after historic ...

The crisis in the Brazilian Amazon began in Manaus, a city of 2.2 million that has risen out of the forest in a jarring eruption of concrete and glass, tapering at its edges to clusters of wooden ...

Bridges in the Amazon would work great… until January. For most of its length, the Amazon isn't anywhere close to too wide to bridge—in the dry season. But during the rainy season, the river ...

Roads to oil and gas exploitation areas would likely then branch off AM-366. The critical importance of keeping the large forest block west of the Purus River intact is hard to overstate.

The number of fires in the Amazon rainforest grew 30.5% in 2019 from the previous year, according to data released by space research agency INPE on Wednesday.