Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

Hydropower is outdated and harmful—causing deforestation, reduced rainfall, energy loss, and water insecurity. Safer, more ...

Henry Ford built his what he considered his idealized city in the Amazon Rainforest, Fordlandia, but circumstances left it ...

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...

Raoni's 1 600-strong community has a two-pronged approach to defending its ancestral homeland: conducting patrols against ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy ... has shown that hot nights in Hong Kong coincide with more people being taken to the Accident and Emergency unit in hospitals.