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…
Microplastics have been found for the first time in fish from the Peruvian Amazon. The announcement was made by the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, which detailed an investigation that…
A new study has reported that the Amazon rainforest has lost an area the size of Spain in 18 years due to deforestation. The tropical rainforest has lost an area…
The Amazon saw more rainforest destroyed in April than in any other month in the last ten years as it appears loggers are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to…