The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, has long been thought of as a refuge from human-made pollution. But recent research is shattering that idea. Microplastics, tiny plastic ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

From legendary predators to playful river mammals and dazzling birds, these animals have become symbols of the Amazon’s wild ...

The Amazon Rainforest stretches endlessly across South America, forming the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. From above, its winding rivers carve through a vast ocean of green, revealing the ...

According to research published in the journal Ambio, plastic fragments have been found in wildlife and water across all nine Amazonian countries. As Mongabay observed, microplastics are appearing ...

Leafcutter ant carrying a leaf to its nest.© Ken Griffiths/Shutterstock.com Researchers report that a large portion of Amazon insect species already live close to their upper heat limits. As global ...

You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

A canopy walkway at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (ACTS) Field Station in the Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve, located 40 miles outside of Iquitos, Peru. Look up in the woods and you ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, ...