This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

In Brazil’s long-running battle between industries that exploit the rainforest’s ... business interests to the Amazon’s ...

Visitors to the Amazon who expect a "Discovery Channel-like experience" with "jaguars in every tree" and "anacondas on every shore" will be disappointed, Lonely Planet said. Instead, the ...

Researchers across the globe, from Australia to the Amazon rainforest, are experimenting on forests in a bid to better understand the role trees play in keeping the Earth cool. Their findings ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat ... mostly in the branches of the giant trees.Image: Cinétévé Dragonflies and damselflies buzz around the spines ...

Image caption, Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been happening for a number of years. Trees don’t technically breathe, but they do respire, like we do. However, instead of taking in ...

The Amazon is being deliberately destroyed. Trees that have stood for hundreds of years are being chopped down and ... Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to ...

Forests flanking Brazil’s rivers act as “highways” that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for millions of years, new research shows.

The Amazon by day is a place of plants ... Overhead, lianas drape from immense trees, the vines binding the canopy of the forest into a single interwoven fabric of life. Few flowers can be ...

A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

For example, fast-growing trees with soft wood lose their capacity ... Previous research has indicated that the Amazon Rainforest absorbed 30% less carbon in the 2000s compared to the 1990s.