Muira Puama (MP), often referred to as the "Viagra of the Amazon," is a medicinal plant traditionally used as a neuromuscular ...

Riverside forests help trees migrate between Amazon and Atlantic forests, shaping biodiversity over millions of years.

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

The world’s largest water lily with giant floating leaves and fragrant white flowers, blooming only at night. An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator ...

For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...

An extensive new exhibition at the CCCB in Barcelona takes a look at the art, culture, biodiversity and history of the Amazon ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...

Credit: Mark Witton/The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the Amazon ...

Three Indigenous communities in Peru’s Amazon are no longer engaging in unsustainable or illegal forest activities to make ...