You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

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, ...

The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river ... vertically in the trees, above the shaded forest floor - in the layers. Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors ...

With this fair treatment philosophy being a tent-pole of his success in the US, Henry Ford set his sights on a dramatically ambitious project in the Amazon ... from Brazilian trees, making tire ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves ... mostly in the branches of the giant trees.Image: Cinétévé Dragonflies and damselflies ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest ... who live amid the trees and along ...

SAO PAULO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating ... of the Amazon have the biggest, densest trees and the most continuous canopy cover ...