Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon ...

Dutch researcher and tree expert Hans ter Steege is the founder of the Amazon Tree Diversity Network, which brings together ...

Their results showed that rainforest conversion to rubber plantations led to an increase in soil DOC concentration and a decrease in soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrients, which in turn ...

With the soil map and these chemical analyses ... “The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and the eyes of the world are on us, so the country is increasingly dependent on the ...

This rainforest, and its huge carbon stores ... for instance, degrade the soil and pollute the water, and trees must be cleared to make way for them. But Verweijen and colleagues say there ...

The rare Bahia Emerald, which was mined in Brazil in 2001 and smuggled to the U.S., has long been the subject of competing ...

Acids and bacteria in rainforest soil often decompose corpses before they can be preserved, leading to gaps in the fossil record. “A [body] fossil only represents a moment in time,” Hone writes.