This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

Visitors to the Amazon who expect a "Discovery Channel-like experience" with "jaguars in every tree" and "anacondas on every ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. Leticia Yawanawa has an ambitious plan ...

This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very warm! Plants grow well here because it's so hot and wet. This tree has its own microhabitat.

Trekking through the Amazon rainforest is something ... layers and try to place the correct plants, insects and animals in the specific layers of the rainforest they belong. Students could study ...