The Amazon rainforest appears wild and untouched by humanity, ... In fact, humans have inhabited the Amazon for roughly 13,000 years, and have been domesticating plants for at least 8,000 years.

Humans Started Record-Breaking Fires in the Amazon Rainforest, According to Environmentalists Fires have been raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for weeks, threatening wildlife ...

Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating climate change, according to a new study. While many climate studies ...

And while many of the communities who managed these plants died in the Amerindian genocide 500 years ago, the effects of their work can still be observed in today’s Amazon rainforest. “People ...

Big Number. 867,000. That’s how many square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest had been cleared by 2019, according to the researchers, representing 14% of the region. Surprising Fact ...

TORONTO (CTV Network) — About a third of the remaining Amazon rainforest has been severely degraded by human activity, and the emissions from this activity are equivalent to or even greater than ...

Dark skies over Sao Paulo this week were just a local hint of an unfolding global catastrophe centered in Brazil. This year, the Amazon rainforest is burning at unprecedented rates, after historic ...

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and ...

Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating climate change, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.