For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and ... in 1979, a new, if contested, border cut through their homelands. The Siekopai now ...

Costa Rican Border Police agents patrolling in a rainforest. Costa Rica is one of the only countries in Latin America without a military. How a Tourist Paradise Became a Drug-Trafficking Magnet ...

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate ... The legally defined Amazon, which follows the borders of the Amazonian states, ...

There are four fire-prone "hotspots" in South America that researchers found to have particularly increasing risk for fire: the Amazon rainforest in most of its nine-country span; the border ...

Nobody seems to remember how Brazil's Road of Ghosts came by its name. Maybe it was due to the long, desolate stretches along its 900km course through the Amazon rainforest without a soul or ...