More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said on Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.

It was not lost on several users that the Amazon rainforest is home to many species of animals that would be considered ...

He agrees that the Amazon rainforest was shaped by the actions of human hands thousands of years ago - but he says they were the hands of sophisticated indigenous farmers. A specialist in pre ...

Human impact on Earth traced back 4,000 years by scientists Dino-killing space rock gave rise to Amazon forest Dr Piperno's discoveries also inform an ongoing debate about how much the Amazon's ...

The Amazon isn't as pristine as you might think. Turns out, humans have been changing its landscape for thousands of years. This suggests that some of the Amazon we know today was largely ...

The humid forests of the Amazon have no adaptation to fire and ... He believes the driving force behind the fire is human rather than natural. While statistics show that 2016 also saw a ...

The first initiative is the Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ Resilience to Climate Change in Colombia program, funded through a ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot ... ways we can protect these fascinating and unique species, the rainforest, its human inhabitants, and global climate stability.

A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting ... miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said.

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate—it also noticeably improves the health of humans who ...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on future generations to safeguard and protect the wildlife and the delicate ...