A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

Treating soil and farmers better can help save what's left A butterfly lands on Edson Polinario as he harvests Acai berries from a forest in the municipality of Nova California, state of Rondonia ...

Gold mining is literally sucking the Amazon rainforest dry, creating an environment where trees cannot grow, according to a new study. Researchers found that suction mining not only degrades the soil, ...

Simple low-cost farming practices, such as planting legumes to enrich soil with nitrogen, can help farmers get more out of already cleared areas.

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

In the rainforest of Costa Rica, a soil-dwelling fish with skin-covered eyes maneuvered through the mud. Its small size and underground lifestyle likely helped it go unnoticed — until now. When ...

Poverty is killing the Amazon rainforest. Treating soil and farmers better can help save what’s left Saving the remaining Amazon rainforest in Brazil will require ensuring that the 28 million ...

Simple low-cost farming practices, such as planting legumes to enrich soil with nitrogen, can help farmers get more out of already cleared areas.

Simple low-cost farming practices, such as planting legumes to enrich soil with nitrogen, can help farmers get more out of already cleared areas.

Simple low-cost farming practices, such as planting legumes to enrich soil with nitrogen, can help farmers get more out of already cleared areas.

Simple low-cost farming practices, such as planting legumes to enrich soil with nitrogen, can help farmers get more out of already cleared areas.

Simple low-cost farming practices, such as planting legumes to enrich soil with nitrogen, can help farmers get more out of already cleared areas.