High above the forest floor, the Amazon’s newest thoroughfares are not branches or lianas but human-built walkways, and the region’s wildlife is quietly adapting. Elevated paths meant for tourists and ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

The Amazon rainforest is always thought of as a pleasantly warm and tropical place, but it has periods of cold as well. These cold fronts cause temperatures to plunge, negatively affecting one group ...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the moment they encountered this snake in the wild.

Indigenous communities, the government and civil society organizations are working to identify the status and whereabouts of animals in one of the most deforested states of the Brazilian Amazon.