Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Rainfall triggers bursts of natural nanoparticles, which contribute to cloud formation and additional precipitation over the ...

The Amazon Rainforest is often hailed as a medicinal treasure trove, with over 25% of modern medicines derived from its myriad plants. Yet, many species remain understudied, holding the potential ...

"Hot plants" grow all over the world, particularly in exotic locales like Malaysia and the Amazon Rainforest. He tells us about the benefits of some of his favorite natural aphrodisiacs.

Imagine: a plant that has been part of indigenous ... It is one of the largest and long-lived trees in the Amazon rainforest. Micronutrients in the double-shelled Brazil support human health ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past ...

For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous peoples ...

It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than 16,000 plant species. Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy. In the fight against pollution ...

Amazon rainforest cut down to make way for four-lane motorway to COP 30 on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very warm! Plants grow well here because it's so hot and wet. This tree has its own microhabitat.

As Brazil clears the Amazon for a highway to host COP30, questions arise over whether such a move undermines the summit’s ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... home to about three million species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also ...