The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several lines of evidence suggesting habitation, including once-populated sites and ...

The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

An assortment of creatures native to the Amazon Rainforest will soon make their homes at the Caldwell Zoo. This included the ...

A rare Amazon cold wave dropped temperatures drastically, prompting researchers to study its effects on wildlife. While most ...

A new study led by researchers at University College London suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in ancient Gondwana regions, including areas that are now part of Africa and South ...

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

Brazil´s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pressing the country’s environmental regulator to approve exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, ...

An international group of scholars has recently discovered and proved that one civilization in the Amazon successfully developed an advanced agricultural system that allowed them to plant maize crops ...