Amazon River

The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Over the course of millennia, Indigenous peoples bred it from a weedy wild plant into a crop that stores prodigious quantities of ...

France and Brazil announce $1.1 billion investment plan for the Amazon

World
David Turner

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian and the French presidents on Tuesday announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) ...

Brazil, France launch $1.1 billion program to protect Amazon rainforest

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

By Ueslei Marcelino BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil and France on Tuesday launched an investment program to protect the Brazilian and Guyanese Amazon ...

A cluster of lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon that lasted 1,000 years has been mapped

World
David Turner

WASHINGTON (AP) — Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 ...

Severe drought in the Amazon reveals millennia-old carvings

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

MANAUS (AP) — The Negro River, the major tributary that runs through the Brazilian Amazon, has reached historic lows, revealing millennia-old carvings ...