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

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

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.

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 ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

A recent study has found that stopping one method of deforestation also improves human health — making it a win-win. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ...

NEW: Never-before-seen footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has been released by author Paul Rosolie on Lex Fridman's ...

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 ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...