DEUS E PAI, Brazil (Reuters) - Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the nearest ...

It is a popular sight on boat tours and river expeditions. The Amazon's largest city is Manaus, Brazil, a "breakneck jungle metropolis" with "far-flung foods, frenetic markets and river-driven way ...

One wrong turn in the Amazon jungle left Yossi Ghinsberg alone, starving, and surrounded by hidden dangers. Lost for 3 weeks, he faced deadly animals, infections, and the fight of his life—how ...

If you can go to the Amazon, the antarctic or the Galápagos, by all means do so. But when you get back, you need not stop your explorations simply because you happen to live in an asphalt jungle.

In the heart of Brazil's Amazon, the village of Metuktire preserves its traditions, nurtures its people and holds the line against environmental destruction.

Oliver Farry speaks to investigative journalist Mat Youkee whose new book, "Forty Days in the Jungle: Behind the Extraordinary Survival and Rescue of Four Children Lost in the Amazon", tells the ...