Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.

A recent study has found that stopping one method of deforestation also improves human health — making it a win-win. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. A new study reveals that ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

In a manuscript published in Annual Reviews, Yale scientists from the School of the Environment described a series of events, rather than one set path, that could lead to the tipping point of the ...