When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

At the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil’s most promising oil frontier is at the centre of a dispute between environmentalists and South America’s largest company. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula ...

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean ...

A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

The third episode of Seven Worlds, One Planet focuses on the most species-rich continent on Earth - South America. The episode shows how some of the continent’s wildlife have developed unique ...

The expedition also found a new species of dwarf squirrel and 10 types of butterfly. Life for women among the Amazon’s illegal gold miners is harsh, violent, and can be deadly. The president on ...