The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

Venezuela and French Guiana, an overseas department of France. Most of the 40 million people who live in the Amazon are in urban centers, the World Wildlife Fund said, and rely on the rainforest's ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, near the northeastern coast of South America, lies an unusal territory that is a part of France, but is miles away from the rest of the country. French Guiana, while over ...