Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire's 1,600-strong community has a two-pronged approach to defending its ancestral homeland: ...

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 ...

First, the amount of water that evaporates from vegetation is reduced ... mechanism that could lead to widespread dieback of the Amazon forest. Specialists estimate that the Amazon could tip ...

Researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), at its Tupã campus in Brazil, have developed and tested a new geospatial ...

In the dry season (June to August), when plants need water the most ... sustained efforts are needed to protect the remaining forest in the Amazon, as well as rehabilitate degraded lands ...

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.

(Amazon Forest Felled to Build Road for Climate Summit ... home to about three million species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also an important regulator ...

A Brazilian biologist is now working to make the rainforest safer for the many primate species that call it home, CNN ...

The Universidade Federal do Amazonas-based research team has developed an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model that utilizes satellite imagery and deep learning techniques to detect wildfires in the ...