A new analysis of archived satellite imagery has revealed that the growing presence of small-scale mining in the Peruvian ...

The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

The Madeira River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, has been losing water flow over the last ... “This doesn’t happen in the extreme drought because the fruit trees are not in the igapós anymore.

A new road in Belem, Brazil, set to open before COP30, is drawing criticism for cutting through rainforest and threatening ...

From big cats (we really mean big cats) to a flock of squawking parrots, these exotic animals make America home.

Despite extensive research efforts, many parts of the Amazon ... River basin, followed by an extensive hike into the rainforest with local guides. That led them to an area dominated by palm trees.

Spaniard Luis Ventura, the executive-secretary of Brazil’s Indigenous Missionary Council, said he prays for the new pope to ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

Scientists have discovered two new poison dart frog species in the Brazilian Amazon. The frogs belong to the Ranitomeya genus ...

Sargassum has been spreading across Florida beaches, and as it rots on shore, it emits gases that are harmful to humans and ...