Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

The Amazon River is a natural wonder, flowing through one of the largest ecosystems on the planet, the Amazon Basin, which ...

Petrobras has received authorization for a pre-operational assessment, moving closer to an exploration permit for an ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the seizure of more than $64 million in illicit assets ...

Often described as the "lungs of the planet," the Amazon basin is twice the size of India, covering around 40% of the South American continent.

October 21, 2013 / 1:44 PM EDT / CBS News New research shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin.