BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The ...

Plastic may well be a useful everyday item, but its careless disposal in oceans and inland waterways is a pressing global problem. Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to human health and the ...

Much of the Amazon’s biodiversity is under fire — literally. In the last two decades, deforestation and forest fires have encroached on the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. They draw it ...

Recent research shows that there is considerable overlap in the important corridors for jaguars and key freshwater species, highlighting the potential for integrated conservation.

The new tetra fish species measure about half an inch long, according to researchers. Photo by Lopez, G. G. S., Souza, C. S., Reia, L., Mantuaneli, L. A., Morales, B ...

The world’s appetite for transcendence is endangering the very organisms that once mediated it. From the Sonoran Desert to ...

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Ages 10 yrs.-adult, $5. Tour the Amazon Basin of Peru and Brazil. See photos of the rainforest and its birds, insects, freshwater dolphins, fish, turtles, caimans, giant otters, and sloths. Visit ...

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He rests his hand gently on the animal and speaks in low tones ... Mercury contamination comes mainly from illegal gold mining — a growing industry across the Amazon Basin — and forest clearing that ...