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

A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have ...

At each moment of each day, the Amazon breathes, dances, and sings with an endless variety of plants and animals, many of ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

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 ...

Because of its title as Earth’s lungs, the Amazon rainforest is essential for worldwide energy ... Through an innovative project, the Itacoatiara power plant in the Brazilian Amazon uses wood waste to ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

A new highway being built through the Amazon rainforest to facilitate travel ... to be a protected area which was home to around 800 plant and fungi species. Residents and environmentalists ...

For roughly about 65 million years, the forests of the Amazonian were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is ...

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 ...

Impending loss of the Amazon rainforest due to deforestation has concerned scientists ... to fear a tipping point was the importance of the vegetation for making rain: Plants transport water from the ...

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 ...