The miners use mercury to separate gold from sediment, then dump the sludge back into rivers, where it enters fish eaten by ...

The longer the Amazon burns, the more concern grows over the scope of the local and global impact. To be sure, the Amazon plays a major role in pulling planet-warming greenhouse gases out of the ...

Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, along the banks of the Napo River, shows how biodiversity can thrive when humans don’t interfere. A butterfly sits perched on the shell of an endangered yellow-spotted ...

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region. That's ...