Regions of South America

Children play in a flooded area of Leticia, Colombia, Feb. 14, 2017, located by the Amazon River, on the border with Brazil and Peru.

Brazil’s neighbors wary of environmental impact of a Bolsonaro victory

October 14, 2022Environment

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has promised to continue facilitating mining and agro industry in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon if he wins another four-year term. But destruction of the Amazon affects the air quality and jeopardizes the water supply in neighboring countries.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a ranch amongst smoke in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2020.

Brazil’s wetlands ravaged by out-of-control wildfires

September 22, 2020Environment

Amazon fires: 8 ways you can help stop the rainforest burning

August 29, 2019Environment

Amazon Stories: Rainmaking

August 15, 2013Environment

Amazon Deforestation on the Rise

August 15, 2013

Two Cruise Liners Turned Away from Argentina’s Southern Port

August 15, 2013Global Politics

This port city in Tierra Del Fuego is sometimes called the southernmost city in the world.

Climate Change Spurs Revival of Ancient Incan Agriculture

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

A community high up in the Peruvian Andes is reviving ancient agricultural practices to help weather climate changes.

Google Begins ‘Street View’ Project of the Amazon

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Google is capturing the panoramic Amazon views by mounting cameras on a boat that is running up and down rivers.

Environmental Activists Murdered in the Amazon

August 14, 2013

In just four days, four environmental activists seeking to protect the rainforest were assassinated in the Brazilian Amazon. Now, deforestation rates are 400 percent higher than the same time last year.

Deforestation in South America

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

The Geo Quiz takes us to South America this time, to a remote region that borders on Brazil and Bolivia. Recent satellite images show cattle ranchers there moving in and thus forcing indigenous people out.