Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged ...

The Canadian-built device called MOPITT – which stands for Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere – was launched in 1999 ...

An ongoing Brazilian government operation launched in February has removed between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal head of cattle ...

From Maui to the Pantanal, disaster recovery needs more than aids, it needs travelers too. Since the return of visitors can ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Plus we join European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano on the International Space Station for the view of the Amazon from space. A weekly summary of the big stories from financial markets ...

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the tropics for almost a decade ...