Related: The Amazon rainforest is officially creating more greenhouse gases than it is absorbing ...

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

Essential' to illegal gold mining, toxic mercury is being trafficked across Latin America, 'fuelling violence' and ...

Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.

Microclimates—as opposed to large-scale regional or even global scale macroclimate models—may hold the key to offsetting the ...

The Amazon is of vital importance because people around the world, as well as locally, depend on the rainforest. Not just for food, water, wood and medicines, but to help stabilise the climate—150-200 ...

Beneath the dense canopy of the Amazon rainforest lies a hidden kingdom,teeming with life, mystery, and a constant battle for survival. In this video, we journey deep into one of the planet’s most ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...

The Amazon Rainforest stands as Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, a living laboratory spanning nine countries across South America. This verdant paradise houses an estimated 10% of all known species ...

LAGO DO CHOCILA, BRAZIL—When a 50-foot Paricarana tree recently toppled in the Brazilian Amazon region of Fonte Boa, it revealed a collection of ceramic vessels buried by an unknown pre ...

The Amazon Rainforest provides the ideal habitat for anacondas, with its vast network of rivers, lakes, and swamps offering plenty of food and shelter. These aquatic environments support their ...

California’s future is closely tied to the Amazon’s — the state relies on the rainforest’s role in climate regulation and rainfall, Koenig said, warning that continued Amazon crude imports ...