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Half or more of the world’s largest forest is in danger of transitioning into grassland, researchers say.

The famous ecologist was a lifelong champion for conservation.

Scientists find human DNA preserved in lice cement from the heads of South American mummies.

In Chapter 15, “Above the Falls,” author Jonathan Meiburg recounts an evening on a research expedition near the Rewa River in Guyana.

The company behind a now-discredited study on hydroxychloroquine also posted a report that has been cited by Latin American governments recommending ivermectin as a possible coronavirus treatment. Clinicians there say the effects have been extremely damaging.

Monitoring the comings and goings of aquatic life with traces of DNA in water has become an established biomonitoring technique, but scientists are now using environmental DNA to assess terrestrial animals.

The same study also finds there are three species of Electrophorus, rather than one.

Studying electrical communication in the wild requires braving the Amazon jungle with sensitive equipment.

A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.

Scientists use remote sensing data from satellites to map biodiversity in the Amazon and Peruvian Andes forests.

Researchers use a century of trade records to uncover differences in the resilience of terrestrial and aquatic species.

See images from a century of fur trapping and hunting in the Amazon basin.

See footage from the expedition that discovered a coral reef hiding beneath the massive muddy plume at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Two new species of closely related electric fishes discovered in the Amazon produce very different electrical signals: one AC, the other DC.