Deep in the vast rivers and flooded forests of the Amazon Basin, there lives a fish that appears to be prehistoric in both size and appearance. The arapaima, also called the “pirarucu,” is one of the ...

The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rain forest, famous for its rich biodiversity and importance in the world's oxygen and carbon cycles. It also has an outsized influence on water cycles in ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war. Santa ...

In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had so far largely escaped the rampant plunder of the forest and its inhabitants by criminal networks and regional elites ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

Deep in the Amazon basin, something remarkable happens every year. Along a stretch of sandy riverbank, thousands upon ...

Indigenous leaders representing more than 511 peoples from the Amazon Basin met in Brasília to discuss the solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis, ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak through a flooded forest. A kayak tour trailing through a sea of trees in the ...