South America is home to a diverse amount of wildlife. From the Amazon rainforest to the arid deserts of Chile, South America ...

Preliminary results presented at the FAPESP Week France health conference suggest the venom from an Amazon rainforest ...

Most Amazon species, given the choice between preserved forest and preserved Cerrado, choose the forest.” The study did not speak to the extinction of these species, but to shrinking populations ...

Most land-based mammals in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the savannization of the region. From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals ...

By Tiago Mota e Silva MANAUS, Brazil — In September 2024, the landscape in the Middle Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon lay in stark contrast to its usual exuberance of lush greenery.

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region. That’s ...

The Amazon Is Deteriorating Too Fast for Species and the Climate to Adapt Scientists say the vast rainforest critical to Earth’s biosphere is eroding so quickly that it risks an “irreversible ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

A new species of fish has been discovered in the Amazon: a piranha relative with humanlike teeth. The eye-catcher was named after a “Lord of the Rings” villain.

Amazon was smart in scheduling Mammals for this week, because in structure and characterization, the show is very, very close to being a WASP-y take on Fleishman Is in Trouble, launching next week ...

Jake Spring reports primarily on forests, climate diplomacy, carbon markets and climate science. Based in Brazil, his investigative reporting on destruction of the Amazon rainforest under ex ...