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Earthworks on deforested landscape are visible via aerial imagery, unlike sites below the Amazon forest canopy. (image by Diego Lourenço Gurgel, courtesy Vinicius Peripato) The Amazon basin could ...

Lush, dense, and bursting with life, the Amazon rainforest is often seen as one of the last remaining pristine wildernesses on Earth. But this notion is being challenged. Over the last decade or so, ...

Across the Amazon basin, rainforests spread their leafy boughs over millions of kilometers. In the ground far below the treetops are ancient, long-hidden remnants of human habitation. They are ...

From deep in the Amazon rainforest, two dozen previously unknown pre-Columbian earthworks have been brought to light — and more than 10,000 such constructs may still be waiting to be discovered, ...