South America continues to feature prominently among petroleum industry headlines. Offshore Brazil and Guyana have become the focal point of what is shaping up to be the continent’s two biggest oil ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - 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 ...

Millions of years ago, North American mammals flooded South America after the two continents joined. But South American mammals failed to return the favor, and now scientists have an idea why. A new ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. A central plot point in the human story is our species’ ...

It’s been over 200 million years since South America broke off Africa into its own continent. But now it’s behaving very strangely. It’s taking on water and going down. How would this whole continent ...

Humanity’s impact on South American ecosystems expanded by 268 million hectares (1 million square miles) — an area of land the size of Kazakhstan or Argentina — since 1985, finds an analysis published ...

Beijing is gradually linking South America together with its massive investments in infrastructure—right under Washington’s nose. In November 2024, Chinese president Xi Jinping personally inaugurated ...

President Donald Trump's intensifying threats toward Venezuela, accompanied by an unprecedented campaign of strikes against suspected drug traffickers at sea, mark the dawn of a new era of U.S.

The Estadio Mas Monumental in Buenos Aires, Argentina is now the biggest football stadium on the continent of South America. Business has been boosted for River Plate who have recently become ...

Have you ever thought about the seven continents that make up our world? From Asia, the largest and most populous, to the icy expanse of Antarctica, each landmass is unique. We have Africa, often ...