While the conditions have existed in South America before, the frequency at which the fire-risk days are happening today "cannot be compared what used to be normal in the 80s," Cordero said.

In recent years, renewable energy has emerged as a key driver of economic growth and environmental sustainability around the world. For South America, a region traditionally reliant on fossil ...

But further south, hundreds of thousands of migrants are making dangerous journeys through the Darien Gap, one of the world’s most treacherous jungles. “Seventy… By Amna Nawaz, Saher Khan ...

A Natural Marvel Lost to Progress. Before Itaipu’s rise, the Guairá Falls—once louder and mightier than Niagara—stood as a crown jewel of South America.In 1982, they were dynamited and ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

SAO PAULO – South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of ...

Two scientists from South America won the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement on Feb. 11 for their work on the often-overlooked connection between human societies and the natural world.

In the 90s, Kristine Tompkins and her late husband began buying swaths of land in South America. Their plan to create national parks through private enterprise had no precedent. That didn't stop them.

She explained that she “was interested in doing a Ph.D. that could draw from all of those pockets,” which led her to environmental toxicology research in South America.