As the impacts of climate change increasingly affect the daily lives of residents in several countries, including Brazil, the ...

Indigenous people devised a complex, multistep process of detoxification. The three staple crops dominating modern diets — ...

The Amazon region is globally renowned for its natural wealth, yet little attention is given to the population residing on ...

Cattle ranches have ruled the Amazon for decades. Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock ...

The study is published in the journal NATURE. The Amazonian butterfly Heliconius elevatus is the result of a cross between two other species, H. pardalinus and H. melpomene. Heliconius elevatus is ...

Ernesto Londoño’s memoir 'Trippy' explores psychiatry's renewed flirtation with drugs such as LSD. He's a believer but not a ...

It wasn't a typical Amazonian village of muddy paths and unkempt foliage. Manicured grass-fronted stores selling colourful crafts, and a striking selection of surrealistic statues depicted the ...

The extractive industries are strategic components of the economy of all Amazonian countries, but their importance varies ...

This World Press Freedom Day, slain journalists like Simon Cumbers and Dom Phillips remind us why freedom of the press is ...

There was no path up the mountain. They had to hire some local field workers to create one with machetes, which was fine with ...