An international team of scientists from various fields has studied the tropics and concluded the region is shifting to…
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Every decade, the trunks of trees in the tropical forests of the Amazon grow thicker by 3.3 percent. This is because plants are absorbing more carbon dioxide (CO2). What exactly…
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A mysterious formation sits in the Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru. If a forgotten Amazonian civilization built it, it could be the tallest ancient structure on Earth. The…
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A team of archaeologists from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) uncovered new evidence of a pre-colonial garden city in Bolivia where ancient Amazonian people lived. They primarily grew corn…
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The Amazon River stretches at least 6,400 kilometers (some sources claim up to 7,100 km), and remarkably, it has no bridges crossing it. Given humanity’s tendency to reshape natural landscapes,…
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Science & Technology
LiDAR Maps Thousands of Ancient Structures—and a Lost City—Hidden Under the Amazon
There are few places left on Earth where nature remains untouched. One of them is the Amazon. In its vast territory of 6.7 million square kilometers, every patch of soil,…
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People in the Amazon River basin sometimes drink milk — even though they’ve never seen a cow or milked any other animal. In parts of the Amazon, there are trees…
