For most of the twentieth century, the Amazon was imagined as a pristine wilderness, a green expanse too poor in soil and too ...

Up to 3 million people once lived here. The jungle hid their monuments for 2,000 years.

A study published in Nature used LiDAR technology, a system that sends laser pulses from the air to create detailed maps of ...

Previous strong El Niños have tested the Amazon’s limits, causing lasting damage on top of the destruction wrought by deforestation and climate change. El Niño-related droughts fueled rampant ...

Now, researchers warn another “Super” El Niño could doom the Amazon rainforest. “The southern Amazon is close to a tipping ...

The water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and ...

Trade winds push about 180–200 million tons of Saharan dust westward annually, carrying it more than 1,600 miles over the ...