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A s manatee populations in South Florida are threatened by the weight of human impacts, from motorboat strikes to ...

You no longer need a plane ticket to Brazil and a trek through the rainforest to land one of the world’s most elusive predators. The Arapaima, a prehistoric giant once exclusive to the Amazon River, ...

Even though the Amazon is still a powerhouse of plant and animal life, about 18% of it has been cut down since the 1970s. Seeking ways to help get some of that lost forestland back, researchers have ...

Ancient Amazonian communities fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it from conflict, excavations show. Farmers in Bolivia constructed wooden defences around ...

From the coastline to freshwater streams, people living in Amazonia say industrial fishing, deforestation, hydroelectric dams and climate change have reduced fish populations. Industrial fishing is ...

Top thinkers and stakeholders from Brazil will visit the Princeton campus May 5-6 to discuss with the University community the critical environmental and climate justice issues facing the Brazilian ...

Lack of contact with the outside world and an active lifestyle could play a role in why indigenous groups in the remote Amazon of Bolivia have some of the lowest rates of dementia in the world. Only ...

Highly positive social outcomes are linked to biodiversity efforts in Amazonian Sustainable-Use Protected Areas, according to new research. The study investigated the social consequences of living ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following intense commercial hunting from the 1930s to the 1950s, scientists and community members are seeing signs that the manatee population in ...