The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize ...

It's a place where few living things can survive in the water. Deep in the world's largest rainforest, there is a boiling ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

Many millions of dollars have been spent to "save" the Amazon. Yet this magnificent ecosystem -- the "greatest expression of life on Earth" according to Dr. Tom Lovejoy, an authority on Amazonia ...

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that ...

We bring together some of the many lines of evidence for the tipping point risk and discuss what reaching it would mean for the biome, the people of Amazonia, its globally unique biodiversity, and the ...

After that I started to read books about Amazonia. One of them was an account of the Spanish soldier Francisco de Orellana’s voyage down the Amazon River in the 1540s—the first European ...

Found in eastern central Peru, it is a small tributary that eventually leads to the Amazon River. Heated by cracks in the Earth’s crust, at its warmest spots, the water can reach 200 degrees ...

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...