A new vegetation mapping method more accurately defines areas of natural vegetation and agricultural production by crop type.

Last year, the country registered 237,000 fires and over 30.8 million hectares of vegetation were consumed by flames—an area the size of Italy. This represented a 79% increase in areas burned compared ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ramp ...

But the thick vegetation here along Brazil’s border ... It was also helping to rewrite the human history of the forest. An Amazon Revealed researcher moves through the forest at night in search ...

The Amazon rainforest is estimated to have 390 billion individual trees and innumerable species of plants and animals. Canopy ...

This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very warm! Plants grow well here because it's so hot and wet. This tree has its own microhabitat.