The southwest of the Amazon rain forest has long been regarded as a pristine wilderness, undisturbed by large scale human ...

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

On Thursday, humidity levels across the stretch from D.C. to Boston were about as high as notoriously humid cities such as ...

Picture the two places side by side. On one side of the Atlantic, the ...

Scientists recently discovered hundreds of monumental, geometric earthworks known as "geoglyphs" in northern Brazil from the ...

When you think of the Amazon, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a wilderness completely untouched by ancient ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous ...

A latest study has uncovered that the Amazon rainforest, which has always been assumed to be a virtually untouched wilderness ...

Trade winds push about 180–200 million tons of Saharan dust westward annually, carrying it more than 1,600 miles over the ...

The Amazon might not have been the untamed jungle we once thought. The world’s largest tropical rainforest was allegedly once ...

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Yes, you might watch a capybara get eaten alive in it, but that just makes you that little bit more like David Attenborough.