The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous nations, but also the ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

Snakes are admired for their beauty and significance in ecosystems. Across the globe, species like the blue coral snake, San ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as forests vanish, sightings are on the rise—offering a glimpse into how folklore is ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of Geoanthropology and Biology Tübingen use genomic data to study the ...

The microbes were found in the Amazonian peatlands of Peru and could be valuable for sequestering carbon in the damp soils.

Wang, H., Caetano-Andrade, V., Boivin, N., Trumbore, S., Clement, C., Weigel, D. (2025) Megafauna and human influence on demography and genetic diversity of a hyperdominant tree in the Amazon Basin.

Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.