The Amazon rainforest is widely considered to be one of the most amazing ecosystems on the planet. With millions of different plants, animals, insects, fungi, and other things living here (many of ...

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according ...

Brazil’s Cerrado wetlands store huge amounts of carbon deep in peaty soils, revealing a powerful but overlooked climate ally.

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. As the world gathers at ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

The sights and sounds of the Amazon rainforest come alive in this soothing and relaxing video that makes you feel you are in the heart of the world’s most biodiverse rainforest. The team at the Amazon ...

A winding river cuts through dense rainforest in the Amazon region of Brazil. The valley stretches deep between ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...