In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of living alongside the rainforest. From cultivating medicinal plants and ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” is a vibrant and diverse ecosystem ...

El Niño is back with a vengeance. A mammoth patch of warm water is growing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving four-in-five odds that ...

Does it feel extra muggy where you live? If so, you might be one of the 80 million people living in the United States experiencing the extreme humidity that is expected to linger into the weekend. On ...

Five South American countries on Tuesday announced completion of a two-week joint law enforcement operation targeting environmental crimes across the Amazon rainforest. The campaign, dubbed Operation ...

Martti Pärssinen, lead author of the study, said the discovery changes scientists’ understanding of the “supposedly pristine Amazon” Getty A Nature study discovered nearly 400 new ancient geometric ...

The Amazon rainforest may look like one of the last truly wild places on Earth – but experts have discovered evidence of a sprawling lost civilisation hidden beneath its dense canopy. Scientists say ...

Today, the Amazon rainforest is revered as one of Earth's most immaculate wildernesses. Nearly 2,000 years ago, it looked very different. Between around 600 BCE and 850 CE, a civilization known as the ...

July 11 (UPI) --Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest levels in more than a decade, officials said this week. Satellite surveys show a 37% decrease in the number of ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest level in a decade during the first half of 2026, according to official government figures. Friday’s statistics mark a milestone in ...

Spanning the Amazon River basin of South America, the Amazon rainforest is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, estimated to host at least 10 per cent of all the world’s known plants and ...

The terms 'jungle' and 'rainforest' are constantly swapped around in everyday conversation. But to a biologist, they couldn't be more distinct. While both are teeming with exotic wildlife and lush ...