Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Slowing deforestation in Brazil and pledges to ban oil drilling in Colombia offer slivers of hope for the Amazon.

Deep in the Amazon, the forest hides everything. Now there’s a way to see through it. Ruins of the 18th-century Portuguese village that surrounded the Príncipe da Beira Royal Fortress. COSTA MARQUES, ...

Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest in Brazil). Tracy is wearing one of the blue ponchos provided by The Nature Conservancy to protect from the heavy rain that ...