In the early 20th century, the Amazon rainforest witnessed one of the bloodiest periods in its history, its rubber trees ...

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, ...

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

The Amazon is being deliberately destroyed. Trees that have stood for hundreds of years are being chopped down and ... Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to ...

Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of Geoanthropology and Biology Tübingen use genomic data to study the ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires ... including 16,000 known tree species. But governments have historically viewed it as an area to be exploited, with ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate ... and planting açaí palm trees farther from the riverbank to protect them from erosion. The community is also working with scientists ...