Up to 3 million people once lived here. The jungle hid their monuments for 2,000 years.

Martti Pärssinen, lead author of the study, said the discovery changes scientists’ understanding of the “supposedly pristine ...

The southwest of the Amazon rain forest has long been regarded as a pristine wilderness, undisturbed by large scale human ...

When you think of the Amazon, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a wilderness completely untouched by ancient ...

Scientists recently discovered hundreds of monumental, geometric earthworks known as "geoglyphs" in northern Brazil from the ...

A latest study has uncovered that the Amazon rainforest, which has always been assumed to be a virtually untouched wilderness ...

Trade winds push about 180–200 million tons of Saharan dust westward annually, carrying it more than 1,600 miles over the ...

The Amazon might not have been the untamed jungle we once thought. The world’s largest tropical rainforest was allegedly once ...

Authorities from five Amazon countries arrested hundreds in a major crackdown on environmental crime ...

Yes, you might watch a capybara get eaten alive in it, but that just makes you that little bit more like David Attenborough.

In 2020, the Covid pandemic slowed down just about everything—save for deforestation of the Amazon. That year, Brazil lost almost 15 square miles of vegetation per day, equal to 24 trees every second.