A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. As the world gathers at ...

When most of us think about clearing away the Amazon rainforest, we have visions of chainsaws and scorched earth. In recent years, vast swathes of the rainforest have been razed for cattle pastures, ...

In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For decades, the rainforest was seen as too hostile for ancient urban life. But that ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

Deep in the Amazon, the forest hides everything. Now there’s a way to see through it. Ruins of the 18th-century Portuguese village that surrounded the Príncipe da Beira Royal Fortress. COSTA MARQUES, ...

Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, the Kichwa people of Pakayaku are quiet yet fierce protectors of the world. According to Mongabay, their mission is to protect their ancestral land from mining, ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...