A new four-lane highway is cutting through protected Amazon rainforest to accommodate the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, sparking outrage over the environmental cost of hosting an event meant to ...
Few Chinese laborers have spoken out about the abuses they allegedly suffered while toiling abroad. Until now.
Can animals and insects have legal rights?Sounds like a scene out of Pixar’s Zooptopia, but this is indeed a reality now in ...
The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...
The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global ...
Deep in the Amazon rainforest grows a small purple-red fruit called camu-camu. For many years, people in South America have valued this berry for its strong nutritional benefits. It is famous for ...
Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.
Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...
The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...
Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people ...