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

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

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

"This effort is part of a comprehensive strategy." Authorities break up massive criminal operation in Amazon rainforest: 'A ...

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 ...

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the seizure of more than $64 million in illicit assets ...

Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower. Global Environmental Change, 2021; 71: 102383 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102383 ...

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 ...

Looking at the Amazon basin specifically, the researchers estimate the total biomass is around 86 petagrams (86 billion metric tons) of carbon–for comparison, 7.9 billion metric tons of carbon ...