Residents and shop owners in Manaus are feeling the World Cup excitement. In the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, Rua 3 is ...

In 1927, the demand for rubber was at an all-time high. The new material was being used by the boatload by car manufacturers ...

The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism.

Amazon climate extremes once expected decades from now are already appearing today, with longer droughts worsening forest ...

Environmental and Indigenous activists say the railway, if it proceeds, will unleash an explosion of carbon and further imperil the world’s biggest and most climate-critical rainforest.

Have you ever thought about what magical beings might be lurking deep within the Amazon Rainforest? Imagine a world where the trees tower above like skyscrapers and rivers twist and turn like snakes.

With talons larger than a grizzly’s and stealth built for Amazon ambushes, it’s no wonder the harpy eagle is considered one of nature’s most formidable aerial predators.

Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Amazon rainforest activist Paul Rosolie claimed he was blocked from using the word "Amazon" in Google Ads while discussing his conservation efforts because Bezos' company has dibs on the word Taylor ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the “lungs of the Earth,” extends across nine South American countries and covers approximately 2.7 million square miles. This vast ecosystem not only supports ...