The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities.

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...

Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

The world's most diverse forest, the Amazon, may also host more than 10,000 records of pre-Columbian earthworks (constructed prior to the arrival of Europeans), according to a new study. The new study ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

An unexpected region of the Amazon is at the forefront of rapid growth in climate extremes, a new report reveals. The central ...

Without trees, the Amazon faces harsher extremes. New modeling reveals more heat, violent storms, and stronger winds.

“We knew that the total amount of carbon stored in the trees of intact Amazonian forests has increased. What this new study ...