By Mark J. Plotkin Having studied the healing plants and peoples of tropical South America for well over four decades, I am ...

The government of Brazil, Brazilian communities, and a broad coalition of partners—including WWF—launched the ARPA ...

Mexico Tops the World With an Incredible 438 Species Mexico officially ranks first among all countries worldwide for the ...

Brazil is hosting the United Nations climate talks with a focus on Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest. Indigenous ...

As the holidays approach and island life begins to explore another winter season, a rapidly growing trend is circulating through our communities.

The Amazon rainforest, which plays a vital role in the fight against global warming through its absorption of greenhouse ...

In the far west of Brazil's Amazon, in Tabatinga, walls are scrawled with drug gang graffiti. At the city's jail, half the ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Deep in Brazil's Amazon, scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for ...

In a remote floodplain of the Brazilian Amazon, where the Solimões River quietly redraws the landscape with each rainy season, an uprooted tree has exposed something few thought still lay hidden ...

Over 1,000 website and services went dark for four hours this morning due to an Amazon Web Services outage. The problem: DNS resolution failed to work properly at Amazon Web Services, causing outages ...