The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

The Amazon by day is a place of plants ... At night we huddled on the forest floor beneath driving rains. Without sleep the passage took on the tone of a dream. One morning, as we followed ...

A study published last year in the journal Science, for example, reported the discovery of two dozen ancient constructions ...

Develop forest management systems that support the conservation and use of forest ecosystem services There are concerns about deterioration of ecosystem functions in mountain forest ecosystems from ...

The impacts of the deforestation of the Amazon Basin include the following. The creation of mines, farms and roads, which causes deforestation, has also led to economic development. The money ...

while ferns and seedlings carpet the forest floor. The Daintree and other tropical rainforests, including those in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, have been called the “lungs ...