In 2020, archaeologists announced the discovery of an 8-mile-long "canvas" filled with various Ice Age illustrations in the Amazon rainforest. The subject of the drawings included giant sloths ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

A type of artificial intelligence that mimics the functioning of the human brain could represent a powerful solution in ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research ...

New study shows Amazon rainfall stable despite deforestation, but seasonal shifts threaten regional ecosystem balance.

Thousands of residents are at risk of losing their homes in the Amazon rainforest due to terrifying sinkholes. The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon ...

The weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could be bolstering rainfall over the Amazon, reducing the risk it will reach a tipping point ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...