Evangelical Christianity is spreading fast across the Amazon. The spiritual battle is reshaping the world’s biggest ...

Zimpel was dubious at first. But out in the forest he came upon sights unlike any he’d witnessed in his career: Line after line of 15-foot-tall stone walls. A solitary doorway arch.

Archaeologists in Peru’s Amazon have uncovered ancient ceremonial club heads, a rare zigzag frieze, and more than 200 ...

Forest catches fire near the BR-163, in the Castelo dos Sonhos district. Photo by Bruno Kelly for Intercept Brasil.

Meanwhile, Amazon destruction continues at a furious pace. Government data show that about three soccer fields’ worth of virgin forest was cleared every minute in 2022.

In the millennia before European colonizers invaded the Amazon rain forest, throngs of Indigenous people moved mountains of dirt to create some 10,000 yet-to-be-identified earthworks across the ...

Two dozen pre-Columbian earthworks have been uncovered in the Amazon rainforest — and thousands of similar constructs may still be hidden, according to new research.

(Pronounced Loss of Amazon Rainforest Resilience Since 2000s, Nature). That chilling fact is the product of global warming and forest-clearing/burning. This is not normal.

In Bolivia, prospectors are digging craters and poisoning rivers in Madidi National Park. This natural treasure stretches from the Andes to the Amazon. Intensive farming, meanwhile, is ravaging the ...

The effect is particularly acute in the eastern Amazon, which has already lost a staggering 30 percent of its forest. The dry season there used to be three months long; now it lasts more than four.

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 ...