In his new memoir "Things Become Other Things," photographer and essayist Craig Mod contemplates the power of a long walk to ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Mysterious ‘Pyramid’ Rising From the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest Is Believed to Shelter Uncontacted Indigenous Tribes In the ...

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest ...

See All Key Ideas MADEIRA RIVER, Brazil — While the Amazon Rainforest’s historical drought was peaking in September 2024, the Paraizinho community, in the southern Amazon, went through its ...

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across ...

When Stéphen Rostain first began his archaeology career, other scientists tried to discourage him from studying the Amazon ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondonia have passed legislation in favor of hundreds of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

Beyond lush canopies and winding rivers, the Amazon Rainforest offer some of the world's most exotic and colourful bird species. Scarlet Macaw, a striking Amazonian bird, features red, yellow ...