A significant breakthrough in Amazonian archaeology has emerged, reshaping our understanding of ancient civilizations. A ...

AN OIL TANKER SAT DOCKED at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond this week — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it’s ...

We write to highlight an urgent, yet preventable public health tragedy unfolding in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In May, 2025, eight Indigenous Achuar children from Taisha—an Amazonic village from the ...

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

Why are Amazon animal populations important? The Amazon rainforest is a hotbed for biodiversity, home to many species that science has yet to fully understand.The delicate balance between the species ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

Despite its name, it doesn’t prey on parrots, but its vibrant color is reminiscent of the rainforest’s most flamboyant birds. Watching a parrot snake glide through the canopy is like seeing a ribbon ...

To gauge the magnitude of this problem, the team found that between 1980 and 2017, small-scale mining destroyed more than 367 square miles (950 square km)) of rainforest in this territory — an ...

Understanding how drought can affect the Amazon, an area twice the size of India that crosses into several South American nations, has implications far beyond the region. The rainforest stores a ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest rainforest ... It covers roughly 40% of South America, spanning Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the ...