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, ...

The DRC’s 10,481 km border touches nine African nations and includes the Congo River Basin, one of the world's largest rainforests. These borders are crucial for regional stability and access to ...

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 ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.