The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of forests across multiple continents ...

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

As you approach his Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state, large single-crop farms of soybean or maize give way to lush, verdant rainforest ... Amazon river, and urge that the ...

What's first on your wish list - the Great Otway National Park in Victoria with plenty of platypuses or the Daintree ...

Scientists working on Will Smith's new show found a record-breaking anaconda species in the Amazon rainforest. The discovery, led by Professor Bryan Fry, involves the 20.7 feet long northern green ...

Amazon midwives are aging, and are often not being replaced. Many communities now have no midwives. But as hospitals become unreachable, traditional midwives are in demand. Years of extreme droughts ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

Years of extreme droughts in the Amazon rainforest that studies have attributed ... still amazed by its vastness on every flight over the forest. "I keep thinking: my God, how do you provide ...