Latest about Amazon rainforest
Indigenous funeral urns discovered on human-made islands in Amazon rainforest
Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs and turtles.
'It's like trying to grow a tree in an oven': Gold mining is sucking the Amazon rainforest dry
Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.
El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest
Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds spiritual significance for Indigenous people.
How we found the northern green anaconda, a new species of the heaviest snake on Earth
The northern green anaconda has been identified as a new species after genetic analysis showed it split from its southern counterpart 10 million years ago.
Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn
Data collected by the International Space Station has revealed a small fraction of leaves in the world's tropical rainforests are already exceeding peak temperatures, and scientists warn that this could increase.
Watch sloth fight off ocelot in incredibly rare footage from deep in the Amazon rainforest
The footage from a camera trap in Yasuní Biosphere Reserve in eastern Ecuador appears to be the first time a fight between a sloth and an ocelot has been caught on film.
Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns
Climate "tipping points," such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, could come within a human lifetime, scientists have said.
Amazon River 'Breathes' Carbon Dioxide from Rain Forest
River bacteria can break down plant-based carbon, exhaling it as carbon dioxide.
