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 ...

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 ...

COSTA MARQUES, Brazil — As ... along the south of the rainforest and contains much of its destruction. Last summer, as a historic number of fires burned through the Amazon, blazing with ...

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 ...

Last year, Brazil was plagued by water shortages from North to South. Authorities declared a state of water scarcity in five major river basins. And wildfires ravaged the Amazon rainforest and ...

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

Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the second-tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest ... River Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s Amapá state. Despite the area ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As part of the France-Brazil 2025 Season, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac presents Amazonie, an original exhibition ...

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.” ...