The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

— Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like the cosmos The funeral urns were buried about 15 inches (40 cm) deep on an artificial island built by ancestral Indigenous people.

Despite its ecological importance, parts of the Amazon are hotbeds of violence, illegal deforestation, cattle grazing, mining, and drug smuggling. Mongabay’s reporters traveled to the rainforest ...

So if you need that refresher course in the importance of saving the Amazon, “We Are Guardians,” like a well-made pamphlet, does the job with plenty of efficiency and heat.

The study was based on oxygen isotope ratios from tree rings of Cedrela odorata and Macrolobium acaciifolium in the Amazon from 1980 to 2010 to reconstruct past wet and dry season rainfall ...