This method can map the ... last year in the journal Science, for example, reported the discovery of two dozen ancient constructions hidden beneath the canopy in the Amazon rainforest basin.

In recent years, vast swathes of the rainforest have ... to help redraw the map of human habitation in the river basin, and so challenge the enduring trope of the Amazon as a green desert.

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

The Amazon rainforest ... An area of rainforest in north-eastern Amazonian Brazil, roughly the size of Trafalgar Square, was subjected to drought conditions for 22 years in an experiment, with ...

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.