Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through ... Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil ...

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast ... some as wide as 33 feet, showing a high level of urban planning. At the heart of these cities stood massive earthen mounds ...

Fires in the Amazon rainforest ... "sensationalist" and "hysterical," photos show this year the smoke looks thicker, and the damage to the rainforest, or the "lungs of the planet," is worse.

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest ... MORE: Brazil experiencing record-breaking wildfires as persistent drought affects the Amazon rainforest Brazil is ...