Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The images, taken in by Copernicus ...

Running through the rainforest in the northern portion of South America is the Amazon river. Although it’s disputed if the Amazon is the longest river in the world, it does carry more water than ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

“The main objective is to map the river and document the biodiversity ... the Yangtze and the Mississippi combined. One third of Amazon rainforest ‘degraded’ by human activity and drought ...

The Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River and its enormous tributaries are home to 30 million people. Many live a simple life in near isolation on the riverbanks, but their livelihoods ...