Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns.

An unexpected region of the Amazon is at the forefront of rapid growth in climate extremes, a new report reveals. The central ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

Mawé, a 24-year-old biology student, has one guiding belief - if the rainforest dies so will her Amazon tribe.

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...