Modern LIDAR observations have finally revealed its long-lost location, hidden amongst the jungle’s dense foliage.

The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred ... very often involved little more than the drawing of lines on a map. Perhaps guards were assigned to the area and a few signs posted ...

The Amazon Basin has long been regarded as the lungs of the Earth. And if that’s true, then sadly, the planet has a bit of a smoking problem. Although the Amazon contains 123 billion tons of ...

This method can map the topography of the land while ... ancient constructions hidden beneath the canopy in the Amazon rainforest basin. The constructions are earthworks built in the pre-Columbian ...

After 2000, migration from rural to urban areas across the Pan Amazon intensified, as people started moving to either main urban centers or cities in the highlands or on coastlines. In Brazil ...

People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a ...

In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a ...

This method can map the topography of the land while also revealing ... reported the discovery of two dozen ancient constructions hidden beneath the canopy in the Amazon rainforest basin. The ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is ...