Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest ... and a threat to plant and animal life. Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured ...

A new species of plant or animal was discovered in the Amazon rainforest every three days between 1999 and 2009, according to a World Wildlife Fund report. They included a bald parrot, a tiny ...

Embark on an unforgettable journey through the Amazon Rainforest, often called the ... From dazzling wildlife and medicinal plants to sacred tribal knowledge and ancient ecosystems, each frame ...

The mightiest rainforest in the world is shrinking ... Home to a staggering number of species of plants, animals, insects, and fungi, the Amazon holds a rich array of the life that exists on ...

Our guide grew up in the rainforest ... Bill Frist, MD. The Amazon is home to thousands of plants with medicinal properties, many of which we have yet to discover. We have just scratched the ...

This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

accounting for about half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. "The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these emissions," explains atmospheric ...

The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous ... tribe’s deepest knowledge on cooking, medicinal plants, weaving cotton and painting body ...

In the Amazon rainforest, a "living seed bank" is planting the seeds of hope for a greener future. As Reasons to be Cheerful reported, a living seed bank is like a garden on a mission, where plants ...

Medicinal plants can produce diverse specialized metabolites with important pharmacological properties and have been directly used as traditional medicine for centuries. Phytochemistry and ...