Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River.

When Andrés Ruzo was a boy growing up in Peru, he learned of an old Incan legend: a “boiling river” hidden deep in the Amazon. Today he sets out to find it.

writer, photographer, and explorer Loren McIntyre perches at 18,200 feet in the Peruvian Andes. During a yearlong survey of the Amazon River, McIntyre discovered its most distant source.

The meeting point of the waters from the Amazon River and the Atlantic, a region rich in biodiversity that could be affected by oil spills from blocks Petrobras is looking to explore in the ocean ...

In a river of northern Bolivia, a silvery predator with “sharp” teeth swam through the murky waters. Its white eyes scanned the aquatic landscape, but it wasn’t the only one looking around.

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A landscape of high tariffs increases the challenges of adapting to climate change, slowing the pace of the transformations needed to address it.

After meeting with Indigenous leaders from Ecuador, California—the world’s largest consumer of Amazonian oil—introduced a ...

That’s Palmetto State Park in Gonzales, Texas – a lush, otherworldly pocket of nature that feels like it was accidentally ...