Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains ...

Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, some of the most widespread and damaging ...

Both US supermajors have snapped up acreage in the emerging, environmentally sensitive Brazil play as they continue building ...

Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture. Criminals also took advantage of poor control over the mining sector and used ...

Bezos announced he was divorcing his first wife, MacKenzie Scott, just before the National Enquirer published a story about an affair with Sánchez.

Photojournalist Thomas Peschak overcomes challenges to bring the Amazon River system to life in pictures to protect it. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF has said.

How bad is deforestation of the Amazon? The roughly 2.3 million square miles of the Amazon Rainforest are spread across eight countries in South America. Close to two-thirds of the forest lies ...

Last year’s devastating drought in the Amazon Basin was made 30 times more likely by climate change, according to a report from World Weather Attribution, a network of scientists that analyze ...