Archaeologists have uncovered further evidence of a pre-colonial “garden city” in Bolivia where ancient Amazon people lived largely reliant on maize agriculture and raising muscovy ducks. The research ...

The COP30 climate talks start this week in Belém, a city at the mouth of the Amazon River that Brazil’s leaders chose as a venue to highlight connections between the climate crisis and the world’s ...

Analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that precolonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. One reason it is possible to be optimistic about the future of the Pan Amazon is that none of the countries must deal with an impending demographic ...

When Adrian Dominican Sr. Lorene Heck served as a regional superior for her congregation, she got to know fellow Adrian Dominican Sr. Judy Bisignano and her passion — the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador ...

A meeting on the Church in the Amazon region took place in Manaus, Brazil, Aug. 19-22. (Credit: Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.) Listen SÃO PAULO – Five years after the Amazon Synod, members of the ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Beneath a setting sun, marchers clad in feathered headdresses and hand ...

A new U.N. report documents some of the most widespread and damaging impacts of the 2023-24 drought in the Amazon basin, which affected hundreds of thousands of Amazonian people. The main impacts were ...