Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

The work of Everett Senior shook up the world of linguistics and aroused a fair amount of controversy. He used the Pirahã ...

The Detroit Zoological Society’s Amazon program equips students with supplies and knowledge—linking conservation and ...

In the late 1960s, he went to Brazil in search of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rain forest called the Mayoruna. McIntyre was dropped off on a riverbank, and followed the tribe into the forest.

James March, 24, has been reflecting after finishing his latest challenge, a gruelling ultra-marathon in the Amazon ...

If you want to experience true quiet, head to this Wilderness Quiet Park located in Ecuador, where you can support the Cofán ...

Mr. Musk’s Starlink has brought the internet to some of South America’s most remote places. But Bolivia is shunning it, even ...

Aaron Wayne Castranova, 41, reportedly from Alabama, in the US, suffered "multi-organ failure" after having a hallucinogenic ...

Three years after UK journalist Dom Phillips was murdered, his widow and colleagues have published the book he was working on ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

To gauge the magnitude of this problem, the team found that between 1980 and 2017, small-scale mining destroyed more than 367 square miles (950 square km)) of rainforest in this territory — an ...

The Amazon rainforest is as pristine a place as most people can imagine, but even there, the effects of a changing climate are playing out. Now, research suggests that many of the region’s most ...