Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Imagine walking through the Amazon and realizing the animals that make it magical might not be there for your kids to see. For many, the Amazon is a place of great mystery, a place where one’s ...

Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Between the parents, the four kids, the dog, the two sloths, the python and the baby caiman, it’s a tight fit in the Silva family’s two-room floating home in the Amazon ...

LAKE TELE, Brazil (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - More than 100 red river dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon over the last seven days. This is according to the Mamirauá Institute, which is a ...

The authors are calling for better monitoring of tropical lakes, which are home to countless endangered species and are ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Slaughterhouses that agreed to a settlement with Brazilian prosecutors were far more likely to obey environmental laws banning the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested ...

With a spear in hand and red hair rising like fire, the mischievous forest guardian from Brazil's Indigenous folklore, ...

An ongoing drought in the Amazon — combined with the effects of climate change and El Niño — caused temperatures in Brazil's Lake Tefé to soar and led to the deaths of more than 150 dolphins at the ...

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon.