This 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Hainsworth shows Hainsworth on the right and a guide on the left holding a boa constrictor in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, about 100 miles from Manaus. Amazon guides ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...

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A century ago, Brazil's rubber barons imported a full-scale European opera house to Manaus, the gateway to the Amazon. Today's attempt to build a World Cup soccer stadium there and host four games in ...

MANAUS, Brazil — The Amazon guide raised his hand in the steaming forest and looked at me at the end of a line of six hikers. “Do you want a machete, Jeremy?” asked Shane Zammette. “Jaguars always ...

The Amazon guide raised his hand in the steaming forest and looked at me at the end of a line of six hikers. "Do you want a machete, Jeremy?" Shane Zammette asked. "Jaguars always attack from the rear ...