When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Canopy cranes, once reserved for treetop research, let you see the “eighth continent” like an arbornaut. TRAVEL; There’s a new way to tour the Amazon rainforest—by crane.

Tree doctors. The research team, known as the "tree doctors" to the communities living in the forest, took measurements and samples over a year from 11 separate sites across the western, central ...

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 ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study published in Nature Ecology and ...

Oxygen isotope signals in rings from two Amazon tree species allowed the international research team to reconstruct seasonal changes in rainfall for the recent past.. Publishing their findings in ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded.. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

For three generations, the Brazilian government’s agricultural research company, Embrapa, has led experiments to recuperate degraded rainforest and help ranchers produce more without toppling ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. According to a newly published study in ZooKeys Journal, the discovery was made at the Allpahuayo-Mishana National ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 ...