Researchers have discovered the purpose of the bizarre clay chimneys located at the base of the Amazon rainforest based on ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global ...

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.

In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, the country’s agricultural heartland, vast stretches of lush Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna give way to seemingly endless fields of soy. Located in a transition ...

Brazil’s Cerrado wetlands store huge amounts of carbon deep in peaty soils, revealing a powerful but overlooked climate ally.

The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil and neighboring South American countries is one of the largest and most remote ecosystems on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amazon rainforest. Neil Palmer / CIAT The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, ...

Riverine communities and scientists release around 1.500 Amazonian turtles at Jau National Park, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon rainforest, as part of a program to assist the reproduction of the ...

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...

The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 43rd Niwano Peace Prize to Benki Piyako, an indigenous spiritual leader of the Ashaninka people in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, in recognition of his ...

The premise is about a 1996 expedition into the Amazon to make contact with the isolated Korubo tribe, and examining that ...