While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns. This revelation, made possible through cutting-edge scientific methods like ...

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

Spanning 468 km, the longest trail in Latin America will pass through seven conservation units and feature maps, signage, and ...

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. New research has identified the ...

Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

Pan-Amazon map showing newly detected large-scale forest degradation in 2024. Source: Bourgoin et al., 2025. - European ...

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

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...