Unlike humans, plants and fungi can't sign contracts. Without courts to enforce binding agreements, a primary way to ensure ...

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

Most folks don’t realize that Peru’s Amazonian forests are second in size only to Brazil’s Amazon. Unfortunately, agriculture ...

A major study shows Amazon and Andes forests are failing to adapt to climate change, raising alarms for biodiversity and ...

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. It harbors immense biodiversity and plays a crucial role in the global climate ...

The famously verdant Amazon Rainforest can easily transform into a dry savannah in the future because various environmental ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in ...

Los Amigos lies in the rainforest of southeastern Peru's Madre de Dios region where some 46,000 miners are searching for gold along river banks in the country's epicenter of small-scale mining.

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.