Far from Colombia's tourist hubs, the Mavecure Mountains rise from the Amazon jungle. Once off-limits during conflict, they now draw adventurous visitors to rare wildlife, sacred sites and vast views.

A Brazilian court has ruled that officials must restore and preserve Fordlandia. The city was established by Henry Ford nearly a century ago in the Amazon rainforest.

Billions of dollars worth of gold is still being extracted illegally from Brazil's Amazon ‌rainforest, a study by nonprofit ...

According to two recently published studies led by scientists from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the ...

A type of Artificial Intelligence that mimics the functioning of the human brain could represent a powerful solution in automatically detecting wildfires, plummeting the time needed to mitigate their ...

Brazil’s government has announced a $75 million investment in the BR-319 highway, a move environmentalists fear could speed ...

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, ...

Spending 72 hours inside the Amazon Rainforest quickly turned into pure survival horror as brutal heat, venomous wildlife, ...

An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and 35 years of satellite data to uncover the shocking ...