Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset scheme to support the conservation of the Amazon ...

If you’re walking through a rainforest, you might want to keep your head up. How else would you know to duck to avoid a ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

New research shows tree stem respiration does not rise sharply with long-term warming. Trees adjust, releasing less carbon ...

What these men had in common, according to those who knew them, is that they spoke out against drug cartels engaged in ...

Dr. John Clark, a research botanist with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, discovered four new species of airplants. They were ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Lightning is one of nature’s most destructive forces, responsible for killing ...

"People tend to think that by just planting a diversity of trees, these rainforests will regenerate," said Baptiste Wijas, a postdoctoral fellow at Cary Institute and visiting academic at the ...

those woody parasitic vines known to strangle and reduce the growth of many rainforest trees. Researchers long suspected some tree species had tolerance towards lightning, but no empirical ...