Are you ready to learn about one of the most extraordinary places on the planet - the Amazon Rainforest - and the incredible ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

The Amazon rain forest covers more than two million square ... More than a third of the world's species—mostly plants and insects—make their home in the rain forest. But with the help of ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about ...

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

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.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of an 18th-century Portuguese colonial city hidden beneath the dense vegetation of the Amazon rainforest. The city, previously known only from historical maps ...