Legend has it that the Santiago river used to swallow the canoe of anyone trying to explore it. Now an indigenous community ...

High above the forest floor, the Amazon’s newest thoroughfares are not branches or lianas but human-built walkways, and the ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute on Saturday released thousands of giant Amazon River turtle ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...