A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests.

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world’s largest rainforest, according to a new collaborative and international study led by the University ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, ...

Deep in the Amazon, the forest hides everything. Now there’s a way to see through it. Ruins of the 18th-century Portuguese village that surrounded the Príncipe da Beira Royal Fortress. COSTA MARQUES, ...

Laser mapping of the Amazon rainforest uncovered the remains of a sprawling ancient city complete with roads, reservoirs, and ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.

I recently contributed a section on how to communicate about the Amazon for the “Amazonia in Danger” report, a collection of ...

How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their ...

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 what ...

The Amazon rainforest is on course to reach a crucial tipping point as soon as 2050, with devastating consequences for the region and the world’s ability to tackle climate change, according to a study ...

Biden acknowledges U.S. climate policy could change after he leaves office. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a call for future generations to protect the ...

Washington — President Biden urged leaders to work to protect the environment on Sunday, during a visit to the Amazon rainforest that marked the first such trip by any sitting U.S. president in ...