Discover what the Amazon Basin is. Learn about its geography, location, history, rivers, map and Significance in this article.

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...

Publication of a new map showing all the above-ground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon is good news in the context of the severe crisis afflicting the world’s largest contiguous tropical rainforest.

In the seasonally flooded plains of Bolivia, a buried story of the Amazon has just come into focus, revealing a landscape shaped by human hands rather than untouched wilderness. What is emerging from ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. As a punishing drought ...