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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration's decision to close the US Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats and raised questions about the influence ...

From Fighting Disease to Protecting the Amazon Rainforest, USAID Has Big Impact Across the Globe The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has ...

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 ...

Bogota, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.

(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. 22, 2019.

FILE - Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River amid a drought in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) ...

The world’s largest water lily with giant floating leaves and fragrant white flowers, blooming only at night. An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator ...

Credit: Mark Witton/The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the Amazon, ...