In August, roughly 66,000 fires ravaged the Amazon rainforest, much of it the result of man-made deforestation. After initially rejecting millions in foreign aid, Brazil’s President Jair ...

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast, untouched wilderness, inhabited only by scattered ...

Imagine walking through the dense, humming heart of the Amazon rainforest. The air is thick, the ground alive with insects, ...

The Amazon rainforest was alive with sound. It was 3 a.m. , and Ari Grele’s eyes were bloodshot from hours of staring at multiple screens, working furiously to ensure his team’s data flowed seamlessly ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. Lost cities in Amazon that lasted 1,000 years are ...

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As deforestation continues to rise in the Amazon rainforest, efforts are ongoing to identify ways to reverse the trend of tree loss in this valuable ecosystem. One example is land titling, land reform ...

For weeks, we’ve seen headlines saying the Amazon rainforest is burning.But something unexpected happens when you map satellite data showing both the fires this year and those that have burned ...

Some areas of the Amazon rainforest are more resilient to drought than others, new research shows. But if not managed carefully, we could 'threaten the integrity of the whole system,' researchers say.

A new report from Monitoring of the Amazon Project (MAAP) compiles some of the most up-to-date and extensive analysis of mining in the Amazon. The map show 58 instances of illegal mining in ...

Opinion: The global gold rush puts the Amazon rainforest at greater risk. May 9, 2023 5:01 AM ET. By . ... His latest book is Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years.