Experts often warn about the “tipping point” for the Amazon, a scenario in which the rainforest collapses into a drier, less ...

In the image, shared from orbit, the Amazon appears almost like a living organism, its vast network of tributaries branching ...

Insects in 112-million-year-old amber from Ecuador reveal a prehistoric rainforest and new clues about South America’s ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing ...

Recent research shows that there is considerable overlap in the important corridors for jaguars and key freshwater species, ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is unclear if this trend will continue ...

Without trees, the Amazon faces harsher extremes. New modeling reveals more heat, violent storms, and stronger winds.

Image An Indigenous Korubo boy in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Paulo Múmia/Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas [National ...

Brazil's state oil and gas giant Petrobras is closer to obtaining a license to drill in the environmentally sensitive Amazon ...

Having travelled for days from his village deep in the Peruvian Amazon to attend New York for Climate Week, Shapiom Noningo ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The ...