Even though the Amazon is still a powerhouse of plant and animal life, about 18% of it has been cut down since the 1970s. Seeking ways to help get some of that lost forestland back, researchers have ...

Artificial walkways in the Amazon rainforest aren't only being used by researchers and tourists to safely traverse the canopy. It turns out that these passages are also convenient for the local ...

Researchers carried out a massive survey in the Brazilian Amazon for so-called annual rivulids, a family of fish whose eggs survive in a hibernation state during drought and then hatch when it rains — ...

The Horta da Terra production farm. Imagine a farm that doesn’t look like a farm. Instead of uniform rows of the same crop, this place is a riot of colors, textures, and heights. It feels more like a ...

Mangrove forests are not only critical carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots but also play a key role as suppliers of trace elements to the ocean. This is shown by a study conducted by the GEOMAR ...

An international study has discovered a genetic variant that confers resistance to Chagas infection in Amazonian populations. Indigenous people from Amazon show genetic Q1 signatures of ...

Oliver Metcalf a reçu des financements de ECOFOR (NE/K016431/1), and AFIRE (NE/P004512/1), PELD‐RAS (CNPq/CAPES/PELD 441659/2016‐0) and the BNP Paribas Foundation’s Climate and Biodiversity Initiative ...

Illegal gold mining threatens the environment and human health in the Amazon, said shaman and Yanomami Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa in a talk at Princeton Jan. 31. And there are consequences for ...

Drones and other technologies that monitor deforestation can help to curb illegal activities such as logging, gold mining and crop cultivation in restricted areas (see Nature 610, 22–29; 2022). But ...

Nearly impossible to spot in their murky habitat, the underwater "ghosts" are coming into view thanks to sonar technology. Manatee biologist Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske extends a hand to an Amazonian ...