Here is a look at USAID’s impact around the world: Protecting the Amazon rainforest and fighting cocaine in South America USAID has been critical in providing humanitarian assistance in Colombia, ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading government cost reduction in the new administration, said the humanitarian agency, ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons ...

The following is a transcript of remarks made by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at the Instituto Rio ...

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...

21, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) Cut logs and wooden boards lie in an area opened by illegal loggers within the Renascer Reserve in the Amazon rainforest in Prainha, Para state, Brazil, on Nov.

FILE - A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP ...

Baby sloth poses for the camera on the tree. Image via depositphotos.com One of the world’s slowest animal species, the sloth, also resides in the Amazon rainforest. Everything about these animals are ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on conservation and improving livelihoods for Indigenous peoples and other rainforest ...