Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

The Amazon River is a natural wonder, flowing through one of the largest ecosystems on the planet, the Amazon Basin, which ...

Around the world, families are seeing higher food prices linked to more extreme weather, which is being driven by rising ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

Often described as the "lungs of the planet," the Amazon basin is twice the size of India, covering around 40% of the South American continent.

Forest fires have consumed tens of millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and illegal burning of forests and pastures.

October 21, 2013 / 1:44 PM EDT / CBS News New research shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin.

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