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 ...

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 ...

A new scientific study has provided compelling evidence supporting a long-held belief among Indigenous communities: the destruction of the Amazon rainforest directly impacts human health. Published in ...

(New York) – Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one of the most important Ice Age archives on Earth. The newly documented rock ...

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, ...