The Amazon Rainforest is often hailed as a medicinal treasure trove, with over 25% of modern medicines derived from its myriad plants. Yet, many species remain understudied, holding the potential ...

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 is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Imagine: a plant that has been part of indigenous ... It is one of the largest and long-lived trees in the Amazon rainforest. Micronutrients in the double-shelled Brazil support human health ...

Rainfall triggers bursts of natural nanoparticles, which contribute to cloud formation and additional precipitation over the ...

But when you replace the trees of that forest with pasture, what happens is that the kinds of plants that live in pasture have ... is about one-third to one-fourth that of trees in the Amazon ...

Impending loss of the Amazon rainforest due to deforestation has concerned scientists ... to fear a tipping point was the importance of the vegetation for making rain: Plants transport water from the ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past ...

Plants transport water from the soils via ... "Just using one indicator to assess the future of the Amazon rainforest isn't enough," Yoon says. "The details of the rainfall patterns can make ...

It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than 16,000 plant species. Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy. In the fight against pollution ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... home to about three million species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also ...