Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

The research team combined data from thousands of studies, mapping where seed-dispersers live, how many seeds they spread, ...

Scientists discovered at least 27 new species during an expedition led by Conservation International in Peru's Amazon rainforest. Trond Larsen, a senior director at the Moore Center for Science ...

The famously verdant Amazon Rainforest can easily transform into a dry savannah in the future because various environmental ...

“The Amazon is a magnet,” he says. Passionate about the forest, he sought out any opportunity to work in the region, until he was able to study jaguars.

Another common animal in the Amazon rainforest is the jaguar, a stunning and stealthy hunter. Jaguars are the world’s third largest species of cat and usually weigh between 120 and 210 pounds ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...