When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on ...

Scientists discovered a record-breaking anaconda, the northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima), during a film shoot in the ...

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

Enter Tabita dos Santos Moraes, one of the hundreds of traditional midwives who deliver babies in the remote villages of the ...

Along the Amazonian coastline in Brazil’s northeastern state of Maranhão, plans are underway for a port project that will ...

Researchers found four Rio Santa Rosa mushroom tongue salamanders in 2022 — four decades after the distinctive species was ...

As world leaders prepare to gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, the Brazilian government is bulldozing ...

Diana Vera, a passionate local guide from Serranía de la Lindosa, Colombia, leads a group of sweaty and panting European ...

BBC's Ione Wells reports from Brazil where rainforest, animals and local people are being affected by the new road.