Rock art explored by archaeologists in the Colombian Amazon has provided an insight into the complex relationship between the ...

The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...

Clearing of Amazonian forest boosts rainfall during the wet season, but reduces it in the dry season, when the ecosystem needs water most — highlighting the need to prevent further clearance of ...