Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge’s boat on the Rio Negro. I grew up swimming in rivers and creeks in rural Pennsylvania, and now seek them out wherever I travel. I’ve jumped into rivers of all kinds, from the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

While the fastest route between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo cuts inland and takes just under six hours, we opted for the ...

Brazil is home to some of the planet’s largest areas of tropical forest, but they are under intense pressure. The Atlantic Forest, on the country’s eastern coast, once covered 350 million acres, but ...

How do you like your adventure? Are you a derring-do prone devil-may-care type who’ll do anything once? Or would you prefer to push your boundaries while still remaining well within reach of help? A ...

Brazil on Thursday unveiled long-awaited details of a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in pledges.Video above: COP30 summit ...

The luxury Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge has a stunning setting on the Rio Negro and breathtaking wildlife sightings. I grew up swimming in rivers and creeks in rural Pennsylvania, and now seek them out ...

I grew up swimming in rivers and creeks in rural Pennsylvania, and now seek them out wherever I travel. I’ve jumped into rivers of all kinds, from the Maipo in the Andes to the Vltava outside of ...

Idra Novey is a freelance writer and author of three novels, most recently "Take What You Need," one of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2023, and a finalist for the Joyce Carol ...