Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest ...

A new road in Belem, Brazil, set to open before COP30, is drawing criticism for cutting through rainforest and threatening ...

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across ...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making ...

A strange peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may actually be the largest pyramid ever built in the ancient world. Known as Cerro El Cono, this massive, pyramid-shaped formation is cloaked ...

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 ...

lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondonia have passed legislation in favor of hundreds of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new ...

When Stéphen Rostain first began his archaeology career, other scientists tried to discourage him from studying the Amazon ...

See All Key Ideas MADEIRA RIVER, Brazil — While the Amazon Rainforest’s historical drought was peaking in September 2024, the Paraizinho community, in the southern Amazon, went through its ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.