The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

When the United Nations climate conference COP29 kicks off Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, attendees will be grappling with the ...

British adventurer Ash Dykes recently uncovered the source of an uncharted river deep in the Amazon rainforest. Alongside his ...

The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to combat ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to ...

In the Amazon Rainforest, it's been the driest year in more than a century. Throughout South America, countries are grappling with less water, battling record wildfires and rationing energy as ...

Luke Auld-Thomas spotted the ancient Maya site in Campeche, overlooked by Mexican scientists, from old lidar data he was ...

In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a ...

Revelations Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are using ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have ... Lidar surveys are very useful in Mesoamerican archaeology, where swaths of jungle can quickly swallow up entire cities.