The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns. This revelation, made possible through cutting-edge scientific methods like ...

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.” ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade over the past three decades.

Washington — President Biden urged leaders to work to protect the environment on Sunday, during a visit to the Amazon rainforest that marked the first such trip by any sitting U.S. president in ...

Biden acknowledges U.S. climate policy could change after he leaves office. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a call for future generations to protect the ...

The world's largest rain forest houses an abundance of wildlife. March 11, 2009 — -- It's home to the world's most vast variety of living creatures with the most birds, freshwater fish and ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...