The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Discover how Brazil is reinforcing its military presence in the Amazon region to protect its vast natural resources and address growing environmental concerns.

Generations of women of the Amazon and Cerrado have split the coconuts of the babaçu tree for the oil. As the forests are cleared and electric fences put up, they must fight to secure rights to their beloved trees Photographs by Kristin Bethge for the Guardian

The long read: When a small plane carrying a mother and her children went down in a remote part of the Amazon, the odds of their survival looked bleaker as the days went by. How could they be found?

Greenpeace explained to The Latin Times that it is the expected number by 2030 due to the climate crises

For Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, getting online is a challenge.

Rivers that once flowed vigorously now bear the scars of receding water levels, leaving vast expanses of the rainforest parched and vulnerable.

Brazil’s president inspired hope a year ago but approval of a new highway shows he remains a concrete-and-oil state builder

Extreme weather threatens world’s biggest carbon store as the rainforest is already close to tipping point

Julieta Hernández Martínez brought joy as she cycled across Brazil en route to her native Venezuela. Friends remember her inspiring life, not her cruel death

"This shows an unprecedented degree of complexity and density of settlement for this early time frame." The post Discovery Of Lost Ancient City Could Totally Change How We Think About History first appeared on Bored Panda.

Recent mapping technology showed that a series of mounds and buried roads found in Ecuador were part of a network of settlements that lasted about 1,000 years