The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

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 ...

The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, has long been thought of as a refuge from human-made pollution. But recent research is shattering that idea. Microplastics, tiny plastic ...

You’ve finally made it! The trip of a lifetime. Wild nature, lush scenery, and exotic animals galore. It’s all good, as long ...

According to research published in the journal Ambio, plastic fragments have been found in wildlife and water across all nine Amazonian countries. As Mongabay observed, microplastics are appearing ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

A canopy walkway at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (ACTS) Field Station in the Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve, located 40 miles outside of Iquitos, Peru. Look up in the woods and you ...

Typical animals in the lowland rainforest of the Amazon: On the left, the palm-sized dung beetle Coprophanaeus lancifer, which appears to be sensitive to low temperatures. On the right, the Brazilian ...

Most people envision the Amazon AMZN rainforests as a tropical paradise with indigenous peoples, exotic animals, and birds. All true. However, deforestation and climate change threaten that ecosystem, ...

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 ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, ...