When I started doing fieldwork in Borneo 17 years ago, most people thought of tropical forests as wildernesses, hostile to civilised human life and home only to vagrant, primitive people. Major ...

For centuries, explorers chased rumors of lost cities in the Amazon and found only dense jungle. Then scientists used LiDAR to digitally remove the canopy and discovered ancient roads, canals, ...

Archaeologists working across three countries have identified networks of ancient settlements hidden beneath the Amazon ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have discovered two dozen ancient constructions hidden ...

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Ancient communities transformed the Amazon thousands of years ago, farming in a way which has had a lasting impact on the rainforest, a major new study shows. Farmers had a more profound effect on the ...

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Ancient people fascinate us, but we know so little about how they imagined the world around them. Rock art offers us traces of these ancient peoples' creativity — their hopes, dreams, and their ...

Across the burning Amazon, smoke is rising and fine particles of charcoal are falling softly to the ground. At last count, more than 93,000 fires were alight in the Brazilian Amazon, up more than 60 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In collaboration with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists, ...

Caiman in the Brazilian Pantanal. Today the largest crocodilian (alligator or crocodile) found in South America is the Black Caiman, Melanosuchus niger which can approach 20 feet (6 m) in length.

Areas of the Amazon forest with higher concentration of soil pyrogenic carbon, a material produced by the burning of vegetation centuries or millennia ago, show an enhanced resistance to droughts, a ...