Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts ...

The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

A new study finds that Afro-descendant communities in four Amazonian countries are linked to lands with high biodiversity and ...

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these ...