Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.

From there, rainforest stretches for hundreds of kilometres to the border with Brazil – and far beyond. This rainforest is the main reason Colombia ranks as the fourth most biodiverse country in ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

Seventy-five percent of infectious diseases in humans come from animals. Environmental destruction and urbanisation are increasing the risk of zoonotic outbreaks. Veterinarians run disease ...

The Amazônia Revelada project, led by archaeologist Eduardo Neves, is using LiDAR technology to scan areas of the Amazon rainforest for lost structures. LiDAR, which employs lasers to map the ...

Bhiamie Williamson leads the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Program at Monash University. He is also a Director of the environmental charity Country Needs People. Last month, Australia ...

BILLINGS — Intensity reached a peak level Tuesday night at Amend Park when an opening-round girls playoff match soccer between Billings Skyview and Billings Senior was decided by penalty kicks. Tied 1 ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is ... REDD+ Transactions (ART), through which private ...

(ERA5/Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF) The Amazon rainforest, which has been beleaguered for years by droughts and fires, contributed the largest drop in the annual global land sink. If ...

Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished. High atop the list of culprits is agribusiness—commercial soybean growers and cattle ranchers who represent the country ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back ... parts of the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the traditional knowledge of ...

CARAJÁS, Brazil — Jefferson Sousa could have been eking out a living at the expense of the Amazon forest, working on a cattle ranch like his father. “It was all I knew, it was what kept our ...