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

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

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

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

PBR receives Ibama's approval to start emergency response drills in the Foz do Amazonas basin, advancing its push into Brazil's next major offshore oil region.

And the forest is home to rich indigenous cultures, including a number of “lost” or uncontacted peoples. All of that diversity, however, is under threat by human development in the Amazon Basin.

Petrobras has received authorization for a pre-operational assessment, moving closer to an exploration permit for an environmentally sensitive offshore region in the Amazon basin.

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 ...

Sediments from the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the now lush Amazon basin was much drier during the last ice age. Between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, the Amazon River carried little more than ...

The Brazilian Amazon has systematically been deforested, dammed and developed by the federal government, river basin by river basin. The most recent to be so developed was the Xingu watershed.

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.