Riverside forests help trees migrate between Amazon and Atlantic forests, shaping biodiversity over millions of years.

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

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.

The Amazon rainforest is unarguably one of the mysteries ... It is a home to over 40,000 plant species, 3,000 kinds of fish, 430 types of mammals, 1,300 bird species, and an awesome number of ...