Rising abruptly in the Amazon rainforest, the peak's isolation and pyramidal shape intrigue scientists and locals.

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

It demands stronger federal and state policies to protect the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands. Both regions have suffered devastating, mostly man-made wildfires since 2020. Brazil’s ...

This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil ... ever deeper into the rainforest. “The Amazon offers far more land than ...

The soft rustle of rainforest leaves punctuated ... the field station of the Emilio Goeldi Museum, Brazil’s oldest research institute in the Amazon. Despite their endangered status, manatees ...

Brazilian prosecutors are calling for the cancellation of the largest carbon credit deal in the Amazon Rainforest ... that the contract contravenes Brazil’s new carbon market law.” ...

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BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand ...

Why it's incredible: El Cono stands alone in the rainforest and has ... region on the border between Peru and Brazil known as the Sierra del Divisor. The mountains are visible in the background ...