Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

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 ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

Deep in the Amazon, the forest hides everything. Now there’s a way to see through it. Ruins of the 18th-century Portuguese village that surrounded the Príncipe da Beira Royal Fortress. COSTA MARQUES, ...