As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at an auction slammed by environmentalists months before the country is to host a UN climate summit.

He continued photographing in Latin America, but never forgot his experience with the Mayoruna. "I wasn’t sure myself if it had really happened or not,” he told the Seattle Times in the ’90s.

CroisiEurope reveals new Amazon itineraries on its new ship, RV Brasilian Dream, offering three ambitious expeditions ...

Create a large class map of South America out of collage materials to show the Amazon rainforest, the Andes mountains and the River Amazon. Mark in some major cities too.

There, the accumulated sediments of the Mississippi’s vast watershed spill out across the delta, forming 6,000 square miles of wetlands and marshes—the Amazon of North America.

Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.

An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote ...

Philly is already in the thick of Fourth of July week preparations and festivities, with Wawa’s Welcome America lineup in ...

Already Latin America's biggest oil and gas producer, Brazil is seeking to increase production from 4.68 million to 5.3 million barrels per day by 2030.