A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

Imagine walking through the dense, humming heart of the Amazon rainforest. The air is thick, the ground alive with insects, ...

Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation venture backed by several corporate heavyweights, on Friday unveiled its first project, aiming to restore 1,200 hectares (2,965 acres) of Brazil's coastal Atlantic ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can provide a fresh ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

This garden is a marriage between my childhood haunt, those twisted roots and mossy trunks of the trees in Lydford Gorge- a rainforest by my grandparents’ home - and the work of The Wildlife Trusts ...

It’s even been called the “Amazon of the North ... after which the massive rainforest is named. “Venture into a realm where thousand-year-old trees stand tall, unique plants and animals inhabit the ...

For centuries, humans have told stories of divine trees or supernatural forests. Maybe this is one case where nature really did build something extraordinary. Not flashy. Not loud. Just quietly ...

Tree rings can be used to determine the release of mercury into the air due to mining activities in South and Central America. This study is crucial in determining illegal mining activity and reducing ...

Scientists studied nearly 100 trees struck by lightning in the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, a lowland rainforest in Panama, between 2014 and 2019. More than half of the trees struck directly ...

In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, pushing deep into the rainforest and indigenous lands ... Now, a team of researchers examined if trees native to the Peruvian Amazon could be used as ...