Halfway through "Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus!". The first seven days in the jungle camp have already provided plenty of talking points. Some campers were particularly in the spotlight.

A researcher’s quest to preserve tracts of the Amazon basin leads him into wild adventure.

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

A freak fly-fishing accident left industry veteran Jim Klug unable to see—and fighting his way out of one of the most remote ...