His "Green City" plan aims to halt illegal deforestation through a mix of enforcement, creation of the Amazon's only local environmental police force, and promotion of an economy that doesn't rely ...

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its dense green canopy stretches across nine countries, providing a ...

BRASILIA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a "Green Nobel" prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental champions of the Amazon rainforest.

Over three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing its ability to recover from drought and man-made disruptions since the early 2000s, threatening to push the rainforest past a ...

The world’s largest snake has recently been discovered in the Amazon rainforest. This new species of northern green anaconda (Eunectes akiyama) differs by as much as 5.5 percent from the ...

Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness. Science Advances , 2020; 6 (47): eabb7232 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb7232 Cite This Page : ...

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth. The Amazon in South America is the largest tropical forest in the world, spanning over 6.7 million square kilometres. To put its sheer size in ...

MARUAGA, Brazil — The 10-year-old took off running down a dirt road in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, turning cartwheels, playing tag and picking fistfuls of wild bougainvillea. Small fires ...

To Save the Amazon Rainforest, Scientists Look for Clues in Its Past Published Feb 02, 2024 at 12:04 PM EST Updated Feb 02, 2024 at 2:34 PM EST ...

Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world. A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian ...

French-Brazilian Triptyque Architecture designed a tropical building in Paris, France, bringing the Amazon rainforest to France. The designers say the sustainable building, called Villa M, “aims ...

Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world. A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian ...