A Cambridge University anthropologist, Francoise Freedman, experienced the plant's anesthetic properties first hand while living with the Keshwa Lamas tribe in the Amazon in 1975. {{#rendered}}{{/rendered}} She said, "We were trekking through the rainforest, and I was having terrible trouble w...
As the Amazon rainforest burns at unprecedented levels, new satellite imagery from NASA shows an enormous cloud of poisonous carbon monoxide rising from the devastation.
By Austin Williams Published March 7, 2022 8:33pm EST News FOX TV Digital Teamarticle Aerial view showing a deforested area of Amazonia rainforest in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 15, 2021. Nearly 80% of the Amazon rainforest has exhibited signs of loss since the early...
Offering a rare glimpse into the life of a tribespeople living deep in the rainforest, the photos have generated plenty of buzz after theirpublicationlast month. The photos were taken in western Brazilian state of Acre, which is covered by the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian photographer Ricardo St...
Members of an uncontacted indigenous tribe were recently seen on a riverbank in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest amid the increasing presence of loggers. A rare video shared by the indigenous rights group Survival International shows dozens of people f...
in October to return to the presidency, Lula quickly traveled to Washington last month as a means to demonstrate his alignment with President Joe Biden. Biden's special climate envoy John Kerry was also in Brazil's capital this week to discuss collaboration to protect the Amazon rainf...
The great Amazon rainforest is both the most bio-diverse place on Earth, and the largest natural pharmacy. Many hundreds of Amazonian native remedies have been well documented and studied. Among them, one of the very most popular is chuchuhuasi (Maytenus krukovii), a very large canopy tree...
The entire Amazon rainforest stores between 150 and 200 billion tonnes of carbon in the vegetation and soil, according to Carlos Nobre, a prominent Brazilian climate scientist who has studied the biome for several decades. "It’s a huge reservoir," Nobre told The Associated Press in a phone ...
BETTE MIDLER SUGGESTS TRUMP PAID AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO ADD DIVERSITY TO 'BLACKGROUND' OF RALLIES {{#rendered}}{{/rendered}} "Guess it was just wistful thinking," Midler added in anothertweet."As we watch the Amazon Rainforest burning, all the#GlobalWarmingculprits are foremost in one's mind...
ELON MUSK, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSS CONNECTIVITY, AMAZON RAINFOREST PRESERVATIN EFFORTS Starlink logo seen displayed on a smartphone with an economic stock exchange index graph in the background. (Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)...