Few Chinese laborers have spoken out about the abuses they allegedly suffered while toiling abroad. Until now.

In a groundbreaking move, stingless bees in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been granted legal rights, becoming the world's ...

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest grows a small purple-red fruit called camu-camu. For many years, people in South America have valued this berry for its strong nutritional benefits. It is famous for ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Scientists long believed stem tetrapods largely disappeared after a major ecological event known as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. That event caused widespread destruction of tropical forests ...

Tanyka broke that mold entirely. Its lower jaw twisted outward from back to front. Some of its teeth pointed outward and sideways, not toward the opposing jaw but off to the side. Lining the inside of ...

From a giant venomous centipede to a tiny but horrendous worm - here are some of the Amazon's most deadly animals ...

From a bird's eye view, the Amazon rainforest appears as a lush green mosaic of treetops stretching as far as the eye can see ...