Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run ...

Researchers are analyzing the bug oil’s bioactive properties, aiming to validate its safety and expand its promising ...

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

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

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

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.

Mysterious ‘Pyramid’ Rising From the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest Is Believed to Shelter Uncontacted Indigenous Tribes In the ...

A new study, published in Environmental Research Letters ... They traveled to remote wetlands in the Amazon Rainforest and in Colombia’s vast Llanos savanna, searching for peat where it was ...

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 ...

Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent ... the mercury content in tree rings, the research suggests, can offer insight into ...

More recent research suggests that triggering one tipping element could cause subsequent changes in other tipping elements, potentially leading to a “tipping cascade”. For example, a collapsed AMOC ...