Amazon has developed the successor to its hugely popular e-book reader, though the makers had denied any claims of sending another into the market any soon. We know the sneaky geeks really give anyone a chance to cook beneath the hood - the lads...

The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in the deforestation...

The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in the deforestation...

Brazilian officials say the Amazon is being deforested more than twice as fast as last year.

A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very first ants to...

Few people are fortunate enough to go on a trip to a place that can bring drastic change in their life. I don’t know the names of such people but surely I know the name of a place where one can get close encounters with the abundant nature....

Here comes another opportunity to tap the minefiled of potentials in the world of literature. Two leading booksellers have added another brick in the wall of the industry’s unending search for budding talent by announcing literary...

Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months _ the first such increase in three years _ as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees, officials said...

A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite images of the...

Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish farming. The place: the now-overgrown jungles of...