Pollen found beneath a treeless island shows it once supported a cool-temperate forest - wet, shaded, and biologically rich.

The Amazon Rainforest — a vast green expanse across nine countries, covering over six million square kilometers. From above, it is a living mosaic, dense, vibrant, and teeming with life. Glide over ...

A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, ...

A fallen tree reveals seven burial urns in the Brazilian Amazon: human remains, fish, and turtles found in giant pots.

The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, a trend that has sparked the need for innovative monitoring and conservation techniques. Unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, ...

Chapman University researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and others, published a study in Nature Communications showing that warming tropical rainforest soils release vast amounts ...

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences ...

In 2023, the Amazon rainforest experienced its worst recorded drought since records began. River levels dropped dramatically ...

The Amazon was approaching a "point of no return" of 20 to 25 percent vegetation loss at which it "ceases to sustain itself ...

The home itself is designed to be independent, with holding tanks in the back and minimal power needs for its tiny footprint.