Unforgiving Climate and Terrain The Amazon Rainforest is synonymous with a climate that's harsh and unforgiving. Temperatures ...

A team of researchers led by biologist Professor Freek Vonk made a discovery deep within the Amazon rainforest in 2024.

on the rainforest floor near the Rio Shiripuno in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Macrotermes cultivate a fungus within their nest on which they feed. Red-and-Green Macaws (Ara chloropterus) at a clay lick in ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.

Nine months ahead of the 2025 U.N. climate conference known as COP30, prices for lodging are alarming those who want to ...

These green corridors have allowed tree species to migrate between the two forests ... Interestingly, the researchers found only one or two cases where tree species moved in the opposite ...

Alexis Damancio Silva recalls the severe drought in Puerto Narino, Colombia, last year. The Amazon River nearly dried up, affecting wildlife and agriculture. Silva hopes for US support to fund ...