The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

The water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

When four young indigenous children were found last week after 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle, their rescuers noticed that the oldest, 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, had something ...

Four Indigenous children missing in the Amazon jungle for 40 days following the crash of their small plane were found Friday. "They themselves are an example of survival that will go down in history," ...

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 the canopy layer. A few trees grow ...

New details have emerged about how four Colombian children survived in the Amazon jungle for 40 days after a deadly plane crash. The siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, are part of the Huitoto Indigenous ...

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes ...

It's an incredible tale of terror, hardship and endurance. Four Colombian children survived a plane crash and 40 days in the Amazon rainforest before being found alive. Four Indigenous children are ...

Eating cassava flour helped save the lives of four children found alive in the Amazon jungle more than a month after their plane crashed, according to a Colombian military special forces official. The ...

Not all travellers will jump at the opportunity to fling themselves off the edge of an Amazonian waterfall, but those who do should head to Baños. Located on the outskirts of the rainforest, this ...