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 ...

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 ...

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.

The preservation push in Ecuador comes as another South American country that includes part of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, is moving ahead with plans to further develop oil resources.

But beyond the everyday mentions of France or Japan lies a world filled with lesser-known gems that often don’t make it to our mental maps ... South America, is famous for the Galapagos Islands with ...

Iran launched a wave of missiles today at the largest American military base in the Middle East. The attack — which targeted ...