The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up ...

One of the largest known uncontacted tribes on the planet has had recent interactions with outsiders, prompting concerns ...

Members of Peru’s Mashco Piro tribe have been seen entering another Indigenous groups village in the Amazon as a logging ...

What could happen to Peru's Mashco Piro tribe who live in the Amazon rainforest if the isolated community comes into contact with other groups.

The famously verdant Amazon Rainforest can easily transform into a dry savannah in the future because various environmental indicators — such as deforestation — are flashing red and can push the ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans ...

Explorer Lucy Shepherd uncovers a host of predators Guyana’s Amazon rainforest, including one of the world’s deadliest snakes ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

“A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, Critical Transitions ...

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

In a joint declaration issued at the Amazon summit, eight South American nations pledged to support Brazil's Tropical Forest ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...