Up to 36% of the Amazon rainforest may resist severe drought far better than scientists previously assumed, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research linking shallow water tables and ...

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

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 ...

Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil, taken on August 20, 2024 - Copyright AFP ...

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 ...

Archaeological surveys along Brazil's BR-156 highway in Amapá have uncovered Indigenous artifacts, including pottery and a 1,000-year-old stone monument, revealing a complex pre-colonial network of ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls ...

For the first time, the United Nations climate change negotiations are taking place at the edge of a tropical rainforest, a setting many are still waiting to see if it can inspire governments to take ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo, Bishop Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi Mass in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, on June 19, 2019. (Credit: Julio Reano/AP.) Listen ...