Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons ...

But agroforestry—the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems, such as planting trees as windbreaks, integrating trees on pastures, or growing tree crops intercropped ...

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 ...

From Fighting Disease to Protecting the Amazon Rainforest, USAID Has Big Impact Across the Globe The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has ...

An international group of scholars has recently discovered and proved that one civilization in the Amazon successfully ...

Read below to find out more. You can read the entire article or jump to any section: Aerial view of Amazon rainforest in Peru, South America. Image by Curioso_Travel_Photography via Depositphotos. The ...

They fear Donald Trump's second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump's Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he'll cut U.S.

The Trump administration's decision to close the US Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats and raised questions about the influence ...

Here is a look at USAID’s impact around the world: Protecting the Amazon rain forest and fighting cocaine in South America USAID has been critical in providing humanitarian assistance in ...

A new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study integrates social, economic, and environmental factors in a new mapping tool that plots suitability for agroforestry practices, like the alley ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.