The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

An interview with Virgilio Viana on protecting the Amazon, centering local communities and what it will take to keep the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the ...

Global grains traders abandoned the Amazon Soy ​Moratorium after local lawmakers in Brazil's largest agricultural state Mato ...

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 ...

Wildfires are burning at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, creating a plume of smoke so large that it can be seen from space. A government monitoring agency said Brazil has seen a record ...

Divina Viana is checking her boat as it’s about to take foreign tourists along the Rio Negro, or Black River, in the Brazilian Amazon. This is her home. “I was born and raised in the Amazon, in the ...