Editor's Note: This story was posted on Feb. 12, when Querida Amazonia was released. VATICAN CITY — Through “four great dreams” for a better ecological, social, cultural and ecclesial future, Pope ...

We all know that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” but in daily life, ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is, indeed, an excuse that shields us from our own discomfort or from ...

I went to the Amazon rainforest to study materials. But I was so entranced by its music and culture that I returned twice—the second time with 80 fellow MIT musicians. We had just sat down to lunch ...

A new study by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) has revealed significant cryptic diversity within two-toed sloths (Choloepus) in Amazonia, challenging ...

Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest have often been exoticized. A new exhibition challenges these long-held tropes. Across history, European depictions of the Amazon have typically presented ...