In a small stretch of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil lives a bright-orange species of frog that’s new to science, ...

From Rio's granite peaks to Ilha Grande's emerald anchorages, Brazil's coastline is a pure paradise of rhythm and rainforest.

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

Filmed in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, the golden lion tamarin is one of the most striking and endangered primates on Earth.

Anyone seeing a white jacaranda (Jacaranda puberula), also known as caroba, blooming in the sandbank forest might assume that ...

Now scientists have formally described it as a new species: Brachycephalus lulai, a pumpkin toadlet found only in a small ...

"It's not just the animals." Researchers complete ambitious project with near-extinct creatures: 'Their sounds ... are ...

When tanks overflow, nutrient rich water drips directly onto the ground below. Soil under these branches becomes richer than ...

A recent study indicates that desertification threatens the productive capacity of the soil in 18 percent of the Brazilian ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

Nature occasionally produces animals that seem dipped in gold, their fur, feathers, or scales glowing brilliantly in sunlight ...