Dr. Magali Nehemy stood on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Amazon rainforest when the community's chief—a man in his ...

The sights and sounds of the Amazon rainforest come alive in this video that makes you feel you are in the heart of Amazonia.

The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he was walking into. They arrived by land, drifting along ...

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 ...

There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the canopy layer. A few trees grow ...

We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and ...

Briton completes record breaking 4,000-mile trek through treacherous jungle Aug. 9, 2010— -- Contending with man-eating fish, giant snakes, disease, and Indians who threatened his life, a British ...

This year’s U.N. climate negotiations were seen by activists as a letdown. But a Times reporter found some encouraging signs ...