Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, some of the most widespread and damaging ...

Americans spend an average of $33,000 on their big day, which amounts to between 25% and 50% of their annual household income ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

AN OIL TANKER SAT DOCKED at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond this week — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it’s ...

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

Yet, beneath the surface, scientific research and the lived experiences of countless displaced people tell a different story. Since the 1960s, Brazil has invested heavily in dam construction, ...

Lost cities Earlier this year, a huge ancient city was uncovered in the Amazon, changing completely what researchers knew about the history of people living there. Hidden for thousands of years by ...

Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large human population before Europeans arrived. Dr Lombardo is head of a team proving them wrong.

Analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that precolonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in the ...