The Amazon Rainforest is facing accelerating threats from deforestation, illegal mining, and climate change jeopardizing one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems. This video explores what’s ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...

LAGO DO CHOCILA, BRAZIL—When a 50-foot Paricarana tree recently toppled in the Brazilian Amazon region of Fonte Boa, it revealed a collection of ceramic vessels buried by an unknown pre ...

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers Launched in 2000 by Brazilian and British scientists, Esecaflor, is the longest-running project ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is ...