A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. A new study reveals that ...

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 ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...

A newly-released NASA study has found the atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest in South America has been drying out over the past 20 years and that human activity is the primary cause. Scientists at ...

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, ...

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 ...

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