The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, is a treasure trove of biodiversity, home to millions of species, many still undiscovered. From the vibrant morpho butterflies to the ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

The work of Everett Senior shook up the world of linguistics and aroused a fair amount of controversy. He used the Pirahã ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

The Detroit Zoological Society’s Amazon program equips students with supplies and knowledge—linking conservation and ...

Why does the health of the world’s largest rainforest matter to us? The Amazon has the ability to absorb more than 20% of the earth’s carbon dioxide. The proliferation of fires in the Amazon ...

What would life on Earth be like without the Amazon rainforest? Fires that have been ravaging the region have prompted global concern about the impact on the planet's climate and wildlife – and ...

Flames are spreading across the Amazon rainforest this summer, spewing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day. But scientists say that’s not their biggest concern.

French President Emmanuel Macron wants the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest to be on the agenda at this weekend's G-7 summit. And even Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who previously ...

Viewed from space, the Amazon rainforest doesn’t look like an ecosystem on the brink. Clouds still coalesce from the breath of some 390 billion trees. Rivers snake their way through what appears ...