For years, the Amazon rainforest has been being cleared. The concern is that this unique ecosystem could collapse. However, Lula da Silva’s election as president brought hope. He announced that he ...

Millions of years ago, rapid global warming dramatically altered Earth's forests. Human-driven climate change is working 10 times faster. Reading time 3 minutes Roughly 56 million years ago, a surge ...

Why is there no major bridge across the 6,400-km Amazon River? Explore the geography, seasonal flooding, remote terrain, ...

For more than a decade, University of Wyoming botany Professor Ellen Currano has been collecting fossilized remnants of trees ...

Today, human-caused carbon emissions and warming are unfolding vastly faster than during the PETM. The fossil record reminds us that forests can recover, but only if humanity avoids pushing them ...

The Amazon rainforest does more than receive rainfall, it helps create it. Through transpiration, millions of trees release ...

If you want to know how rapidly pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will affect future forest ecosystems, you have to look into the distant past. The researchers behind a new study published in ...

Australian ultrarunner Mina Guli has run thousands of miles around the world to witness the water crisis on the ground and ...

Fragments of fossilized leaves like these helped the authors recreate the forest canopies of 56 million years ago. Credit: Dr. Regan Dunn A study finds that during the PETM, Earth’s landscapes became ...

Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a system-wide ...

When a destroyed section of the Amazon rainforest begins to recover, nature deploys only a few tree species that can withstand poor soil conditions and blazing sun and grow rapidly, a Brazilian study ...

Studies have found microplastics in various species of Amazonian wildlife, including fish, tapirs, crabs and bats, even ...