The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

Amazon Rainforest Inhabitants Lived Alongside Ice Age Creatures, Researchers Find Rock Paintings of Now-Extinct Animals In 2020, archaeologists announced the discovery of an 8-mile-long "canvas" ...

S tudents in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law spent a week of their winter break in ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.

Genomic analyses reveal the vital role of human activity in the Amazonian species' genetic makeup.Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris ...

Human activity that encroaches upon tropical ... Previous research has indicated that the Amazon Rainforest absorbed 30% less carbon in the 2000s compared to the 1990s. “We urgently need action ...

“The implications of the Trump administration for the Amazon rainforest range from very concerning ... about U.S. support for multilateral human rights mechanisms like the Inter-American ...