Brazilian authorities say a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

"We are fighting to protect what we love." This woman made history defending her people's land: 'It's time that the world listened to us' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A member of the nearby Juma tribe was expected to arrive at the base on Friday to try to communicate with the tribesman ...

"I Am the Nature" poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature through the eyes of the Indigenous Achuar people.

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 ...

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

The catastrophic fires ravaging Los Angeles have become the most destructive in the state’s history ... A hemisphere away, the Amazon rainforest continues to reel from its worst fire season ...

It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research ...

USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on conservation and improving livelihoods for Indigenous peoples and other rainforest ...

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.

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 ...