Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location ...

Revelations Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are using ...

CARAJÁS, Brazil — Jefferson Sousa could have been eking out a living at the expense of the Amazon forest, working on a cattle ranch like his father. “It was all I knew, it was what kept our ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river ...

Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

Extreme drought across Brazil’s Amazon worsens local fears for the future Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and ...

The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a study showed Monday. The South American jungle ...

Lucy Shepherd on surviving jungle wilderness – and redefining the explorer - Following her epic 50-day trek through the ...

Fires in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Region Surge for Third Month By Stefanie Eschenbacher SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for ...