A city official in the remote Brazilian Amazon village of Envira told CNN that five members of the Kulina tribe are on the run after being accused of murdering, butchering and eating a farmer in a ...

New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...

The Amazonia Bond proposal, which aims to raise funds for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, is encountering skepticism and technical challenges. This initiative, backed by several South ...

deep inside the Amazonia rainforest, Amazonas state, Brazil, on ... [+] June 7, 2022. I thought about this as my wife, Tracy, and I began our guided hike deep in the Amazon rainforest (Tapajós ...

Many millions of dollars have been spent to "save" the Amazon. Yet this magnificent ecosystem -- the "greatest expression of life on Earth" according to Dr. Tom Lovejoy, an authority on Amazonia ...

For roughly about 65 million years, the forests of the Amazonian were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is ...

Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location ...

After that I started to read books about Amazonia. One of them was an account of the Spanish soldier Francisco de Orellana’s voyage down the Amazon River in the 1540s—the first European ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

the people of Amazonia, its globally unique biodiversity, and the balance of our earth Early warning indicators show that one third of the Amazon biome (34%) has already experienced at least one of ...