The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

An American tourist died after drinking a powerful hallucinogenic tea during a spiritual retreat in Peru’s Amazon.

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and creating jobs for local communities.

Shanay-Timpishka - also known as the river of boiling water - is not one you'd want to dip your toes in. With temperatures of up to 98-110ºC (208.4-230°F), the Shanay-Timpishka can cause severe ...

In the Amazon, there's oil production, illegal mining, deforestation, pollution of our Marañón River." People who stand up for territorial rights are prosecuted and sometimes killed, she said.

Nonuya and Muinane sage and ecological artist Abel Rodríguez (Don Abel) died yesterday, April 9, as confirmed by his representing gallery Instituto de Visión.

The Boiling River regularly reaches 86C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest. When you drive towards Peru's Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the ...

Higher temperatures in the Amazon could threaten the very functioning of many plants there, says Rodolfo Nóbrega at the University of Bristol – and the Boiling River illustrates this perfectly.

The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, ... The Amazon basin, ... The drought has also sapped hydropower plants, ...

The Amazon project is part of $250 million worth of Shedd renovations, expected to wrap up in 2027. Fish swim in the newly renovated Amazon Rising exhibit at Shedd Aquarium on Tuesday morning ...