The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

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

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

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

which has areas within the Legal Amazon. A cell phone reads the QR code of the log, through which it identifies the origin and location of the extracted tree. Image courtesy of Ludmilla Techuk / SFB.

Of the 13,500 hectares of global deforestation linked to the UK’s main forest-risk imports last year – cattle products, soy, oil palm, cocoa, coffee and rubber ... it in tree trunks, leaves, roots and ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in ...