Spending 72 hours inside the Amazon Rainforest quickly turned into pure survival horror as brutal heat, venomous wildlife, endless insects and total isolation pushed humans to their limits. Deep ...

Deforestation, pollution, climate change, and old fashioned human carelessness are wreaking havoc on the world's forests.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem ...

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 ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...