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

The Amazon rain forest covers more than two million square miles of the earth's surface, spanning eight South American countries. Although the region has no seasons, the Amazon River rises and ...

The Amazon forest serves an essential role in regulating ... a 60-year-old Brazilian-nut harvester and community leader in the village of São Francisco, is a living example of this connection ...

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An eight-mile stretch of protected Amazon rainforest has been felled to make space for a new four-lane highway in time for ...

All across the Amazon Basin, in fact ... came to the Curanja River to lure his people out of the forest. The missionaries built a village, cleared land for a farm, recruited interpreters from ...

His home village of Metuktire, named after his clan belonging to the Kayapo people, is accessible chiefly by boat along the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. The formidable chief lived most of ...

Orbiting spacecraft now routinely observe the Amazon rainforest and its health ... It shows a section of virgin forest being systematically removed over a three-year period.

Stretching along South America's east coast and extending inland towards the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest is one of the world’s most ecologically diverse regions. It is also one of the most vulnerable.