Riverside forests help trees migrate between Amazon and Atlantic forests, shaping biodiversity over millions of years.

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, ...

Forests flanking Brazil’s rivers act as “highways” that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point, Indigenous people will have been a determinant factor,” Miller said. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of ...

Forest loss in Brazil's Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6 per cent compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. The ...