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

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

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 ...

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 ...

With world-class beaches, swathes of Amazon rainforest, history-packed cities and off-track wilderness plains, Brazil's colossal landmass packs a staggering diversity of nature, culture and ...

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 ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

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 ...

The novel coronavirus is spreading so fast among the indigenous people in the furthest parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest that doctors are now evacuating critical COVID-19 patients by plane to ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said on Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.