When Stéphen Rostain first began his archaeology career, other scientists tried to discourage him from studying the Amazon ...

El Cono has remained a mystery for geologists and enthusiasts due to its location and shape, but in the local culture, it is ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in ... The data from Brazil’s INPE space research agency, which showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It covers some 5.5 million square kilometres, and spans nine countries.

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

Global demand for agricultural goods is increasingly being shaped by geopolitical forces like the ongoing trade war. Brazil's ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a ...

In a protected part of the Amazon, Bacuri, a young manatee that was found stranded and alone, is being raised in captivity.

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest prot ...