The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...

Across countries in the Amazon Basin corruption remains a deeply entrenched phenomenon as society has a higher tolerance of fraudulent behavior. Corruption encompasses many types of behavior ...

Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads ...

Scientists have identified more than two dozen previouslyunknown fish species in Peru and the Amazon Basin, uncovering a fascinating array of aquatic life. Among the discoveries are a blob-headed ...

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...

The citizens of the Pan Amazon are dissatisfied, even disgusted, with the status quo; unfortunately, they have been unable to discover a pathway out of their predicament. Image still from ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

Ibama is under pressure from the Ministry of Mines and Energy to authorize Petrobras to drill a well in the Foz do Amazonas ...

The impacts of the deforestation of the Amazon Basin include the following. The creation of mines, farms and roads, which causes deforestation, has also led to economic development. The money ...