The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...

In July 2019, about 30 scientists from around the world gathered in Manaus, Brazil. Their goal was to map out all of the ways the Amazon absorbs and releases greenhouse gases. In a new study published ...

The world's most diverse forest, the Amazon, may also host more than 10,000 records of pre-Columbian earthworks (constructed prior to the arrival of Europeans), according to a new study. The new study ...

As I write this, the Brazilian section of the Amazon rain forest is still actively being consumed by flames. The tropical South American forest, which covers a remarkable 2.1 million square miles in ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo, Bishop Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi Mass in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, on June 19, 2019. (Credit: Julio Reano/AP.) Listen ...