Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of ancient cities in the Amazon rainforest believed to be over two thousand years old. Located in a region called the Upano Valley in eastern Ecuador, these ...

Several pioneering industrialists of the 20 th century, such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, had no shortage of ambition, and seeing immense success from their ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

Washington — President Biden urged leaders to work to protect the environment on Sunday, during a visit to the Amazon rainforest that marked the first such trip by any sitting U.S. president in ...