The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of thousands of acres of the Amazonian jungle for a new highway. The city of Belém, ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - rainforests and ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location ...

Most of us have heard of the Amazon Rainforest and with good reason. It is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is important for the role it plays in absorbing carbon dioxide and ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil Biden spoke after becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that ...

Adventurer describes going where nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest. Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea. More than 62,000 sq km ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease ...

In 2023 there were 98,639 wildfires in the Amazon alone. The Amazon rainforest, too, accounts for a significant portion (51.94%) of wildfires in the Brazilian biomes. In recent years, this area ...

Findings, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Remote Sensing, report a 93% success rate when training the model via a dataset of images of Amazon rainforest with, and without ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...