A man has been hailed as a hero after he saved six people when their boat sank in a river but then tragically drowned himself. Ivan Willian Coelho, 36, and…
A court has allowed a six-year-old girl called Alexa to change her name by deed poll after she was mocked mercilessly by her classmates. Alexa from Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany,…
A 10-year-old boy died in agony when he was torn apart in an attack by a wild jaguar in the Brazilian Amazon. The attack was reportedly so savage that the…
Europe's last captive male black-billed amazon parrot has been transferred to a new zoo for a breeding programme with one of the few females of its kind. The bird -…
Surgeons have removed a screw from a two-year-old girl's nose after she pushed it right the way up her nostril and it got stuck. The incident took place in the…
The two young brothers who were found after 27 days alone in the Amazon rainforest survived off berries and rainwater. Siblings Glaucon and Gleison, aged 7 and 9 respectively, were…
Two brothers aged 6 and 8 who disappeared nearly a month ago after going into the Amazon rainforest to hunt birds have been found alive despite being all skin and…
Researchers analysing changes in vegetation biomass have warned that the Amazon rainforest risks transitioning to savanna, with dire consequences for global warming. The vast Amazon rainforest covers 2,100,000 square miles…
This is the moment Colombian Navy personnel and conservationists rescue an endangered pink river dolphin after it became stranded for over a month, and then release it in safer waters.…
Experts studying these mysterious 500-year-old shrunken heads from the Amazon that were seized from a smuggler during a raid in Turkey revealed they all had their lips sewn shut to…