"More widespread, more frequent and more intense." Scientists sound alarm about unprecedented conditions in the Amazon: ...

The Amazon rainforest could turn into the driest savanna in the next hundred years due to the combined effects of natural and ...

The trafficking of animals from the Amazon is a growing global problem. For example, 95% of mammals smuggled from the ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

And the forest is home to rich indigenous cultures, including a number of “lost” or uncontacted peoples. All of that diversity, however, is under threat by human development in the Amazon Basin.

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

Sediments from the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the now lush Amazon basin was much drier during the last ice age. Between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, the Amazon River carried little more than ...

October 21, 2013 / 1:44 PM EDT / CBS News New research shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin.

Woods Hole Research Center. "Impact of land use activity in the Amazon basin evaluated." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 January 2012. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 01 / 120118173701.htm>.

The Brazilian Amazon has systematically been deforested, dammed and developed by the federal government, river basin by river basin. The most recent to be so developed was the Xingu watershed.