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

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

"To effectively protect nature, you first need to know what's there." Researchers stunned by rare discovery deep in the ...

The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America ... The biggest animals live on the forest floor. Most rainforest animals have unique features which help them move through the ...

Brazil's Amazon ... of plants and animals, and one million indigenous people. 'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute Brazil wildfires prompt 'prayers' for the Amazon rainforest ...

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