The Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest, is home to some of the most extraordinary and diverse wildlife on the planet. From the colorful macaws and hummingbirds to the ...

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

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.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

New evidence suggests that the Amazon may have been a hive of human industry thousands of years ago—and that it could potentially become that kind of hub again.

The Amazônia Revelada project aims to identify sites in the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the traditional knowledge of forest peoples.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data on Wednesday indicate huge swathes of the jungle that are most vital to the world's ...

The eight countries that comprise the Amazon River basin agreed on several initiatives to curtail deforestation in the world’s largest and most important rainforest.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat, according to a study released ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive.

President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a call for future generations to protect the wildlife in the region.